Letter: Save gasoline by sequencing traffic lights

Friday, June 4, 2004 | 5:30 a.m.

WEEKEND EDITION

June 5 - 6, 2004

Everyone seems to be well aware that there's a gasoline shortage and that the price per gallon has been adjusted to reflect what the market will bear. So why haven't area traffic managers discovered what we all know?

How much gas is wasted waiting for ridiculously long traffic lights to change? How much more is wasted speeding to the next light before it turns red?

Whatever happened to sequenced lights? (They were sequenced in Utica, N.Y., in 1968, so please don't try to tell me about technology problems.) It takes me no less than 25 minutes to go the 10 miles from Cheyenne to Tropicana avenues every day. At least nine of those minutes are spent waiting for lights to change.

There are too many ways to save gas to even begin mentioning here, but please fix the lights!

ANDREW C. BRANIGAN

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