So I am pretty sure I have done plenty of whining about this already, but I am going to whine some more about how much I hate traffic. This time I am going to talk about the machines that control traffic the stop lights. One problem we have where I live is our traffic lights. I guess that is something that is to be expected with a lower population and traffic that swells and falls with time. That is something you get from living out here in the suburbs. My main problem is uhh I guess you would call it the concentration

You know the amount of traffic lights you find in one area or another. In some areas traffic lights are rare. They only appear at major streets that everyone knows of. Otherwise there are none around. These are the good streets. Often times traffic flows through these streets. Well except at the one place where there are four traffic lights in three block. That is the only reason why there is ever traffic on these streets. The traffic gets plugged up, because there are two accessory lights right next to the main one. Often times these lights do not change with the main one. Thus causing a major panic. Which gets to be annoying after a while. I understand that people are stupid and recent ideas that having stop lights at large traffic areas is a good thing. However, at minimum these lights need to be better timed and work together. I mean if a minor inner section that has a turn onto a major intersection is green while the major intersection is red it just plugs up traffic. I always seem to get stuck here and it takes at least three or four cycles of both lights to get through. Adding a whole 15 to 25 minutes to a 15 minute commute.

However, my problem is with the other extreme that I see a lot of. A stretch of street where I am stopping at least once a block. Sometimes the lights are spread out other times there is a light every half block. So it all averages out to about once a block. I hate these streets the most. Mainly because my luck with lights seems to lack at best. By that I mean there are days when that 12 minute drive is 7 to 12 minutes like it should be. Because some how I manage to hit every light when it is green. Then there are days where that short commute can be 30, 40 or even 50 minutes. This is due to a combination of things. Such as my horrific luck where I literally hit EVERY light when it is red. I mean literally hit EVERY SINGLE LIGHT!!!!. I mean that is enough to drive any one person insane. If the lights are always red, you feel a great deal of pain. Then there are my favorites, those who cannot see colors.

I swear this country has some kind of.. I do not know death grip on people. That they are going to get a ticket if they run a light. Problem is that most people do not start going the second the light turns green. It suddenly becomes a game to see who can pull out second. I mean really, do people not understand that green means go? It has meant go since we came up with the idea of traffic control. So why do people sit there and wait? Then you get those who couple with my least favorite kind of vehicles, ones with towing capabilities. As we all know these vehicles cannot move to save their lives. They are designed to ease into driving so you can pull heavy stuff without destroying the vehicle. So you get two people who have vehicles that do not accelerate sitting at a light for a whole five seconds. Then the vehicles take a whole 20 seconds to get going and suddenly the light is red again. Congrats you have hindered traffic.

Of course there is nothing that I can do about any of this. I mean people do not know how to drive and no one knows what is going around them anymore. So all I can do is fall victim to driving too slow. Well that and showing up to the gym WAY ahead of schedule and having to find a way to kill time while I wait for my schedule to catch up. I hate driving sometimes. However, when you live in a state with con-artists who run the public transit. Well you are doomed to just be a victim to driving.