[geeks] Stuff fo' sale

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 @ 12:07 -0400, der Mouse said:

> > What scares the hell out of me now is that the traffic authorities in
> > VA are actually considering putting traffic signals ON THE RAMP.
> 
> I've seen that in various places as an attempt to throttle the rate of
> cars entering the freeway; there's a stoplight on the ramp (fairly far
> from the merge point, in the cases I've seen, thankfully) that lets
> one car go per, oh, 20 seconds or so.

Some of the ramps here are already short, so I don't see how they could
add signals without it being a BadThing(TM).  

Not that would stop them...


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