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re: Does Louisiana get all of the reject traffic engineers?
Posted on 7/2/16 at 12:41 pm to kingbob
Posted on 7/2/16 at 12:41 pm to kingbob
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No, lights are about 90% politics. When developers want to develop a shopping center or parge subdivision, part of the deal they strike with the metrocouncil is generally ensuring that there will be a traffic light at the entrance. Most lights that are not at major intersections exist not due to need, but due to politics. The intersections are generally designed not based off of what will move the most cars the most easily, but what they can get away with for the least amount of money during an election year to look like they're doing something. Traffic lights are highly political as well. Traffic engineers are to road grids as Hollywood writers are to movies. They supposedly have a say in how it goes, but in reality have almost no power and are constantly ignored by decision makers.
This guy gets it ^.
Hammertime, do some research my man
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Posted on 7/2/16 at 12:48 pm to Hammertime
A cab driver in Lafayette once told me their traffic engineers graduated from the University of Pecan Island.
Posted on 7/2/16 at 12:51 pm to Adam4848
And synchronization of the lights is controlled by politicians as well?
Posted on 7/2/16 at 1:23 pm to Hammertime
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And synchronization of the lights is controlled by politicians as well?
Not one that hasn't figured out how to get rich by doing it. It cost Los Angeles $400 million and thirty years to do it for their entire city.
Posted on 7/2/16 at 1:26 pm to Hammertime
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I've lived in Lafayette, Harahan, Slidell, Mandeville, Covington, Madisonville, BR, and Metairie. Traffic is bad in every one of those places.
My sister and her husband used to live in the NYC metropolitan area and said they have never seen traffic so bad as Baton Rouge's.
Posted on 7/2/16 at 1:46 pm to LSU-MNCBABY
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light system at every possible cross street that is solely concerned with moving the 1 mother fricker turning right onto the major highway, stopping traffic on the main highway for 90 seconds every 3 min every 25 feet at said lights.
This is what gets me.
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