Can we knock it off with the fucking useless traffic lights in this country?

While we let rotaries run rampant as tourists use them ass backwards and attempt to kill each other, we seem to feel a need to add more traffic lights to areas that don't fucking need them.

Thanks to this lovely trend, there is now a stretch in a town near me that has no less than three red lights in about 300 feet. A new one was added late last month, and has just been getting used the past couple of weeks.

I have been stopped at this red light no less than four times in the last three days. The presumption is when a red light shows up, its so cars waiting coming from another direction can go.

IN THESE FOUR STOPS, THERE HAS NOT BEEN ONE CAR THAT HAS GONE WHILE WE WAITED, BECAUSE IN THESE FOUR STOPS, THE GRAND TOTAL OF FUCKING CARS WAITING TO GO SITS AT ZERO. ZERO FUCKING CARS FOR FOUR FUCKING RED LIGHTS.

You have got to be KIDDING me. These light arbitrarily goes off when it feels like, I'd imagine because once upon a time some idiot got t-boned turning onto the main road from the side street because they're a shitty driver. So, due to that wonderful person, we now have a light that literally turns red for no reason whatsoever, causing people coming north and south to sit with their thumbs up their collective ass for a minute while NOTHING HAPPENS.

This is very reminiscent of that bullshit that happens when a schoolbus stops now, and has gone on for the last ten years. Some dumb kid a long time ago decided it'd be fun to get off the bus and promptly crawl under it, now we need some fat retired secretary to take thirty seconds every stop to make sure kamikaze kids aren't waiting on the sidewalk for a school bus to recklessly fling themselves under.

Get a grip. Accidents happen every now and then. Accidents are bad, nobody likes accidents. That's why they're called accidents. The solution is not inconveniencing everybody else on the fucking planet.

Labels: rage, red lights suck, traffic lights