16 — Friday, July 11, 1997 - North Shore News

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Let’s all get in synch EE

“THE sheer frustration
of traffic volume, poor
drivers and gross ineffi-
ciency of our trans-
portation system” are
explanations offered by
. News reader Brett
Humphreys as to why
51.8% of North
Shorians think
Vancouverites, collec-
tively, are bad drivers.

Ina lengthy letter (man,
we're talking length here),

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astute observations and a few
suggestions to rectify the bad
driver problem. One particular
suggestion popped out as
valuable yet erroneous at the

country,” he writes, “has not
heard of synchronized traffic
lights.” Mr. Humphreys goes
on to cite the aggravation
caused by stopping “at

EVERY traffic li ht ALL the
way down Lonsdale, or aay
other road in Vancouver.”

In truth, synchronized
traffic lights — a series of traf:
tic lights scheduled to turn
green in order to accomme-
date the free flow ofa group
of vehicles as they travel down
a roadway without interrup-
tion — have been in use for

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