Got A Light?
Traffic lights; not bad things to have around. You stop cars on one street while making it safe for those on a cross street to move without fear of having company at an unexpected moment.
When I go down Market Street in Kingston, all but one are “demand” lights and there is so little side street traffic that I can roll right along without a care in the world.
The Market Street Bridge has no traffic lights on it. Not any more, at least; but it wasn’t always that way. That’s because a guy came to town, after he sold iceboxes to Eskimos and pigs to Muslims, with a truck filled with traffic lights and plans to put every last one of them on the bridge, needed or not.
The bridge isn’t that long, as bridges go. I never measured just how many tenths of a mile (one or two), but there’s only a small to average river under it. And traffic lights over it, all five lanes: two each lanes and a separate turning lane coming into the city.
Seventy-four lights. Yes, 74: approx 15 per lane which, the fast-talking salesman insisted, was the minimum needed to keep the bridge free of catastrophic, widow-making front-page, rolling off the edge, car crashes.
They were taken down, collisions never did take off and we have a lot of spare traffic lights – yours for the asking.
When I go down Market Street in Kingston, all but one are “demand” lights and there is so little side street traffic that I can roll right along without a care in the world.
The Market Street Bridge has no traffic lights on it. Not any more, at least; but it wasn’t always that way. That’s because a guy came to town, after he sold iceboxes to Eskimos and pigs to Muslims, with a truck filled with traffic lights and plans to put every last one of them on the bridge, needed or not.
The bridge isn’t that long, as bridges go. I never measured just how many tenths of a mile (one or two), but there’s only a small to average river under it. And traffic lights over it, all five lanes: two each lanes and a separate turning lane coming into the city.
Seventy-four lights. Yes, 74: approx 15 per lane which, the fast-talking salesman insisted, was the minimum needed to keep the bridge free of catastrophic, widow-making front-page, rolling off the edge, car crashes.
They were taken down, collisions never did take off and we have a lot of spare traffic lights – yours for the asking.
posted by Tom Carten at 9:51 PM
1 Comments:
Did you know that if you make the first green on market, and keep your car at 35mph you will make every green until the "corners"?
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