Excessive Spending - Wasting Fuel - 3rd Verse

For those state, county and township officials who best understand pictures with very few words, here is the fuel wasting example I cited earlier:

(Saturday morning light to moderate traffic)


Since this is the main north-south route for many miles, it would SEEM that -- if nothing else could be fixed -- that this route could be timed for smooth traffic flow. This could be done by a competent 9th grade math student... okay, maybe 10th grade after seeing the MEAP scores. But remember... this is only one example of many hundreds available.

It's a shame that millions of dollars are spent on studies, computer systems, highly paid consultants and more studies. But officials seem more interested in STUDYING traffic problems and then ADDING MORE SIGNALS TO FURTHER IMPEDE TRAFFIC rather than to do a decent job regulating traffic flow for greater efficiency. Meanwhile, you and I pay about $0.35 per gallon in state taxes on gasoline while nothing gets done to improve the efficiency of traffic flow... and that leads to buying more fuel with $0.35 per gallon taxes to waste on inefficient roads ... as well as a lot of our time. JUST WHERE ARE THOSE TAXES GOING?

THIS SHOULD BOTHER ANYONE WHO DRIVES!

p.s. Saturday: 10:30 p.m. on southbound Telegraph from Square Lake Road - traveling at posted speed...

• at Hickory Grove Road (1st signal) - light turns red approaching intersection
• at Long Lake Road (2nd signal) - light turns red approaching intersection
  

After that... forget it... watch the signals ahead and adjust speed accordingly... and let's just say that no one who got through subsequent signals (the majority of vehicles) was near the posted speed.

So let's add another issue with poor signal progression: SAFETY