[You Need a Thneed]

Originally Posted by HockeyIlliterate

I seem to recall reading about the Mayor's desire to update (or, heck, even have) a traffic management plan in regards to the traffic-light synchronization.

How is that plan going?

I honestly don't know who synchronizes the traffic lights in downtown, but whoever it is should be shot. Many, many, many times.

If you are trying to travel north (or south) down 8th street SW, heaven help you, because you are only going to get to go a block at a time, so you best plan to be burning fuel for about 10 minutes to get from 4th Avenue to 10th Avenue. And if you are trying to leave downtown on 5th Avenue any time outside of the wee hours of the day, well, good luck, because traffic will back up for blocks because of poor traffic light timings around McLeod and 1st Street SE.

So, I ask: what is the Mayor's plan to get the traffic lights timed properly so as to allow for the free-flow of traffic? Or does he think that the timing of the traffic lights is working just fine?

There isn't some magical algorithm that gets traffic through in all directions without any delay.