Just something I was thinking about as I drove to work this morning.
The usual way I drive into work, I only have seven traffic lights, and one of them is a right turn with a yield turn lane, so I almost never have to stop there for long.
Six are on the road I use to get to the freeway, (including the right turn at the end,) and one is just off the freeway exit, leading to the service road.
Since I can’t use the shortcut to the service road on the way back, I generally have three more, for a total of ten.
What about you? Do you have too many to count them all? Or only a couple?
(Should I add a poll? I wasn’t sure what brackets to set up.)
If I count correctly, it’s six. Seven if you include stop signs.
A stop sign out of my subdivision, turn right at the first stop light. Then one more on the way to the entrance to the freeway. Then a left turn onto the on-ramp. Right turn at the top of the exit ramp, thru another stop light, then a left onto the street where my office is.
Only about a fifteen minute commute, if it doesn’t snow.
Exit neighborhood, turn on to main road. Stop lights at 75th, 79th, 83rd, 87th, 91st, 95th, 99th, 103rd, 107th, ramp before overpass, at left turn onto interstate, exit ramp to state highway, and at outer road to work.
So, 13. Add 6 if I’m taking my son to day care/school that day.
1 stop sign. 8 traffic lights and one railroad crossing to get to the freeway, plus one fire station exit that’s 99.999% always green for us. Then about 4 traffic lights and one stop sign at the other end between the freeway and employee parking.
If I take the train to work it’s 2 more traffic lights and a 2nd railroad crossing at my end and nothing at all at the far end; the train goes right to work.
Somewhere around 16. It could be less if I didn’t take the backroads that parallel the freeway, but my commute would be longer. That doesn’t count one metering light when I do get on the freeway. I stay on the major road mostly, so they aren’t that bad unless the traffic is very heavy.
It depends on my route. During winter, I take the freeway in to work, and only encounter two traffic lights. On the way home, and early spring through late summer on the way in, I drive through the city and there are ten to twelve lights, depending on the route.