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Eric Zambon

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
42 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Service Request #2: Why Is This Red Light So Damn Long?

As the cars start to congest, it ramps up the green time to help provide throughput to get people through that area.

99% Invisible
Service Request #2: Why Is This Red Light So Damn Long?

So these are the smartest.

99% Invisible
Service Request #2: Why Is This Red Light So Damn Long?

The ones with the pink in the middle are the smartest intersections that we operate.

99% Invisible
Service Request #2: Why Is This Red Light So Damn Long?

Of course.

99% Invisible
Service Request #2: Why Is This Red Light So Damn Long?

Are you from LA?

99% Invisible
Service Request #2: Why Is This Red Light So Damn Long?

That's Olympic Fairfax San Vicente.

99% Invisible
Service Request #2: Why Is This Red Light So Damn Long?

Yeah.

99% Invisible
Service Request #2: Why Is This Red Light So Damn Long?

Yeah.

99% Invisible
Service Request #2: Why Is This Red Light So Damn Long?

So that was designed well before we had...

99% Invisible
Service Request #2: Why Is This Red Light So Damn Long?

our current eyeballs yes it's so bad and there's nothing I can do about that we've we've viewed that through the lens of 50 60 years of traffic we have put that into traffic signal modeling software we've done everything we can and

99% Invisible
Service Request #2: Why Is This Red Light So Damn Long?

I hate to say this, but the confluence of three major streets during peak hours leads to nothing but frustration and signal timing can't fix it.

99% Invisible
Service Request #2: Why Is This Red Light So Damn Long?

And we just inherited that very bizarre, geometrically bizarre intersection that has terrific signals and we have to assign right away two different streets going east-west and one going north-south.

99% Invisible
Service Request #2: Why Is This Red Light So Damn Long?

And it's proven to be a very difficult thing.

99% Invisible
Service Request #2: Why Is This Red Light So Damn Long?

I don't know that it'll get better.

99% Invisible
Service Request #2: Why Is This Red Light So Damn Long?

That's exactly how I feel.

99% Invisible
Service Request #2: Why Is This Red Light So Damn Long?

Yeah.

99% Invisible
Service Request #2: Why Is This Red Light So Damn Long?

Yeah.

99% Invisible
Service Request #2: Why Is This Red Light So Damn Long?

I'm only laughing because you describe what goes on in my mind every day.

99% Invisible
Service Request #2: Why Is This Red Light So Damn Long?

We're about to go through the intersection.

99% Invisible
Service Request #2: Why Is This Red Light So Damn Long?

Someone's crossing the intersection on rollerblades.