Kinda off-topic yet not really, but the light synchronization in the city right now is off-the-charts bad. I realize a lot of this likely has to do with Covid and some of it is confirmation bias, but it seems like every major east west artery right now is completely borked.
For the past three weekday mornings in a row, I’ve hit all nine red lights traveling westbound on 38th/35th Street. Not most of the lights. All.nine.lights. Three days in a row. What should be moderate traffic is near gridlock as the cars just compound upon themselves at every stop. I jumped over to 45th this morning and it was nearly as bad. I’ve noticed something similar on both 5th Street and up on Braker again recently too.
Wasn’t part of the recent bond dedicated towards light synchronization? For a town with limited thoroughfares as it is, shouldn’t this be a relatively easy -and extremely beneficial- fix?