Salida Reynolds

And the people on the side streets are going to experience more pain because they're going to have to wait a little bit longer.

But eventually you're going to get to go.

Yeah.

And that goes for everybody who's using the street, right?

People biking and walking as well.

If there's a bus...

that's coming along or a train that needs to make it across the street, there's a lot more people moving much more efficiently in the train or on the bus or even on a bike taking up a lot less space, which again is one of our most precious resources.

And so figuring out how to balance safety and

efficiency, delay, and the sort of quality of people's lives are all the ingredients that have to go into the creativity with which the system gets managed.

Yeah.

It is.

I consider it as much of an art as it is a science.

You know, when we move a little white line on the street, you know, six inches this way or six inches that way, we know that it changes how fast people drive or how they behave.

And so it's a lot more about human behavior than it is about a math equation.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah.

A lot of other cities will have maybe part of the city on a connected traffic management system.

And most other major metropolitan areas will have a centralized traffic management center there.

where there'll be the same kind of setup, there'll be some cameras, there'll be some video, but it's usually for some subset of their city, some smaller, you know, maybe it's the downtown, and it's a sort of a smaller scale kind of place where things are being managed.

And so it is a repeatable sort of blueprint that has become kind of state of the practice.