KXAN: Austin re-times dozens of signals to keep traffic moving

Saying Austin is re-engineering our traffic light system to address traffic concerns is like saying Austin is giving away free money to the homeless so they'll leave.

Austin was not designed to handle such a volume of population increases, let alone the volume associated with one of the fastest growing cities in the nation. On top of that, as of our recent projects to address traffic concerns do not take into account the compounding amount of people moving to this beautiful city of drivers unable to process the idea of A BLINKER!

This "Re-Timing of Signals" is nothing more then them experimenting at the expense of our time. As they change lights, the traffic build ups only move to another location; and on top of that drivers will use different apps (waze, maps, etc.,) creating more buildups in different locations that are especially not build for such volume. I say this because I have been witnessing there attempts to re-time lights and it's adding significant time to any commute rather than fixing any problem. As they experiment it's costing the city millions in lost production, even slowing the process of future roads being built. In an innovative city we're proven our ability to be useless.

This rant was promoted by the kerosene fire ignited by the light being out on Spicewood Springs Monday morning (if anyone was there you'll always remember the 'Absurd April 3rd') where my 30 min commute turned into 2.5 hours and it took 45 min to travel 1 mile. Special thanks to Austin traffic handlers who didn't send a single police officer out to direct traffic but rather have thousands of people approach one of the busiest intersections as if it were a stop sign.

Additionally, if you text and drive, don't use a blinker, or run out of gas in your 1972 Honda Civic that still has paper plates - I will assist you in any way to go fuck yourselves :). I don't care how good you think you've gotten with blind texting; you still didn't see the light change and everyone behind you is honking while you scroll your facebook. Rant Complete

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