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Originally Posted by ken0042
Well, I guess it's news to me that any lights in Calgary are synchronized. Put putting that aside for the moment, I'll ask this:
Which is better- lights not working and intersection treated as a 4 way stop? (Or in the case of 114th and Barlow you now have a 16 way stop as there's a total of 16 lanes hitting the intersection) Or would it be better to have the lights operate on some pre-programmed sequence that would allow for traffic to flow?
I mean, the reason we have lights in the first place is they work better than a 4 way stop in high volume situations.
I can see the cost of placing a battery backup system being more per year that what it would cost to pay police salary for the few times the lights go down. But that just brings us back to the question; why don't police direct traffic in times of need?
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The ones downtown all are for the one ways. You can go from one end to the other if you are going at the proper speed.
And I'm not saying that having a battery would be worse, I'm saying that the lights still have to talk to the other lights at the same intersection so they know they aren't all green at the same time... and what's going to control that? It isn't just a battery you need....
However, having the cops there would've been the best solution. I don't know why they weren't, I'm just saying having batteries isn't as easy as you think it might be!