Traffic lights
As most people, I drive to get from point A to point B. The place I am residing currently has a pretty good public transport network, though we only use it to go to the capital where it’s horror to drive and navigate the branching expressways. There’s also other factors that contribute me to use a car instead of public transport to move around, though that’s a story for a different day.
There are approximately 5 traffic lights between my home and university. It doesn’t seem that far for some, but for me the traffic lights are an unknown variable once in a while. Sometimes they change the timing of the green lights so it only has time to let two cars go before changing to red, effectively halting traffic for a few kilometres, sometimes the traffic light was just broken, probably from a car or truck hitting it.
Sometimes it has those countdowns with it. Normally it’s the normal countdown led (fancier is the countdown on the light itself), but there’s one junction I go through that has lcd displays on it. I’m not sure whether they had budget to burn through or thought it would make a good ad space. The only thing other than a countdown displayed are reminders to drive safely.
Of course this lcd display is prone to breakdown. I mean at least it’s graceful, the traffic light still works, but it was annoying that I can’t rely on the countdown being there. By now I remember the pattern of the lights, so the countdown now is just something that I look forward every once in a while.
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