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Re: traffic lights



In article <EIJKHOUT.95Oct24135848@jacobi.math.ucla.edu> eijkhout@jacobi.math.ucla.edu (Victor Eijkhout) writes:
>From: eijkhout@jacobi.math.ucla.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
>Subject: Re: traffic lights
>Date: 24 Oct 1995 20:58:48 GMT

>In article <46imk0$du1@clark.net> dlr@clark.net (David Robinowitz) writes:

>> Any operating systems student will remind you that timed lights are only 
>> effective on one-way streets.

>Not if you set different speed limits for the directions.
>Better: have signs that say "if you drive xxx mph you will hit
>all greens". I'd be perfectly happy going a bit under the legal
>speed limit if I could just keep going.

Glendale, Arizona, does this, or at least they did the last time I was there 
five years ago.  There's a sign on each traffic signal saying "Signals Set for 
30 mph" or whatever the speed limit is.  They are, too.

-----
Steve
Woodinville, Washington USA
smdailey@smdailey.seanet.com


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