Re: Article: LA to revert to manual traffic direction

froggie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Steve wrote:

Funny, whenever I've seen a policeman directing traffic, it always seems
to move a lot WORSE than otherwise.  They have a tendency to let too
many cars go on each side, thus holding everyone up for minutes.



We had that problem on the Norfolk Navy Base in the morning...one of
the key intersections was usually manually/police controlled and backed
up roughly twice as much as if they had just kept the signal on.

One thing a cop can do is tell someone to move. I've seen this in NYC fairly often. If a car is caught in the intersection a cop will tell the driver to turn even if he wants to go straight.

Of course this may solve the immediate problem and create a new problem as the driver then tries to get back onto the route he wanted in the first place.

John Mara
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