What’s your gripe with traffic lights? I hate to stop at them as much as anyone, but here in the Chicago suburbs, I find it hard to fault their design and operation, which I assume is under the control of state and local government.
Here in Atlanta they manufacture congestion out of smoothly moving traffic. They are either too long or too short. One would suppose nobody ever comes back to check on the affect those lights have on traffic. Atlanta has few roads that run either parallel or perpendicular to each other. It is a paved spider web that offers few alternative routes between any two points.