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TRAFFIC TIME: IF all the streetlights required you to wait 10 minutes at the red light, would you still drive a car? Or drive period?

Posted - October 24, 2019

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  • 6023
    I'd get an electric bike ... and act like the rest of the local cyclists.
    Ride on the sidewalk, and cross against the lights, yell at pedestrians/motorists obeying the law when they got in my way.
      October 24, 2019 3:21 PM MDT
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  • 4625
    I'd live in areas where there are no traffic lights (a rural area - as I actually do.)
    In a city, I wouldn't bother having a car; I'd travel by public transport or on foot, (as I did when I lived in London and Paris.)
    I'd be keen on a bicycle but only in a place like Amsterdam where there are clearly marked cycleways and bicycles have the right of way.


      October 24, 2019 6:59 PM MDT
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  • Yes.  I would still drive. 

    I would sit there with my windows down
    and blare my dull soulless dance music music for all to hear.

    I'm remembering a well traveled red light district in Florida
    Ponce de Leon I think it was called
    where the gay meat for rent would hang out.  
    Longer times between light changes would have been good for business.
      October 24, 2019 7:15 PM MDT
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  • 33002
    I would get lots of tickets.
      October 24, 2019 7:26 PM MDT
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  • 6988
    Sometimes, in Detroit, I have to sit that long in a backup due to massive road construction on Interstate 75. 
      October 25, 2019 8:28 AM MDT
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  • 53017

    Yes. If that were the situation, it would be the norm, so no one would balk at it.
      November 3, 2019 5:07 PM MST
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