quote:Trouble is , here in the Shoals, if they had an interstate this bunch would want to put stop lights on it. Look at the new bridge!! A stoplight at each end!. You would think somebody designing our road system would take a drive out of town and see there are such things as entrance and exit ramps instead of the necessity to use so many stop lights.
Excelman, you are so right! I don't know who controls, installs and programs the traffic lights in the Shoals, but I wish they would receive some training in traffic flow. It seems they must believe that the more traffic lights there are, the better!! Other cities I've lived in did not have the number of lights here in the Shoals, and in most instances the lights they had were timed to keep traffic moving, not forcing you to stop every few blocks (or even less).
Someone told me one of the reasons there are so many lights in the area is because you are more likely to visit a business if you have to stop in front of it, hence the reason there are more lights. Does anyone know if there is any validity to this? Either way, I wish our traffic engineers understood "traffic flow" instead of "stop and go."