WaPo on Retiming Traffic Lights

To Keep Traffic Rolling, Re-timing Is Everything

This is a series of articles on how people are trying to improve the traffic insanity that is the DC metro area. Maybe timing lights will help.

Of course, I'm remaining firmly on the skeptical side in this blog.

I adopt the view that the most important aspect of transportation is safety.

Convenience is second.

• Do these retiming tricks increase or decrease accidents?
• Has it made significant improvements in other cities?

And in any case, while improving traffic flow is all well and good, it addresses the symptom, not the disease, which is this:

People should not be doing the driving, machines should.