After dropping off a load of furniture and clothes to the Salvation Army in Livonia, I decided to return on the surface roads. Heading north on Farmington Road from Plymouth Road, I managed to travel to the north end of Livonia at the posted speed in noontime traffic without being delayed by poorly timed traffic signals. There were a few "jackrabbits" who raced from one light to the next and managed to stay roughly even with me by the end of the trip despite their unnecessary and self-inflicted stops.
If Livonia can get it right on its secondary surface routes, why can't other communities do it on major arteries? Perhaps they haven't tried hard enough? Perhaps they haven't tried?
Anyway, thanks for saving me some time and money, Livonia. Any chance you have a traffic engineer you can loan out to the rest of the metro area?
