# Its true - traffic lights around here have about 2 seconds of green **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [April 5, 2002, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-true-traffic-lights-around-here-have-about-2-seconds-of-green/101989 "2002-04-05T13:25:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-true-traffic-lights-around-here-have-about-2-seconds-of-green/101989/1 "2002-04-05T13:25:32Z")
I don’t know about anywhere else, but here in Knoxville (I’ve never seen a city with more history or less future) about half the lights are timed to turn flashing red after about 4 seconds. They keep flashing red for a while, but it is annoying. Foes this happen anywhere else? ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-true-traffic-lights-around-here-have-about-2-seconds-of-green/101989/2 "2002-04-05T13:26:35Z")
the link ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-true-traffic-lights-around-here-have-about-2-seconds-of-green/101989/3 "2002-04-05T19:21:43Z")
I assume the link is to Cecil’s column ([Are yellow lights briefer than they used to be?](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_028a.html) As such, this is being moved to the forum Comments on Cecil’s Column. And, please note, that column was written in 1973.