Vote for Craig Bergland

Stop Lights

Added: Jun 5th, 2008
Ill-timed traffic lights are costing us all a lot of money and wasted time. If there are 120,000 cars commuting daily in the Sparks/Reno area, that equates to about $600,000 daily in our fuel costs. This assumes a typical average of 15 miles to work at 15 miles per gallon highway. Probably not too inaccurate.... Highway miles are different than city miles, and can easily be cut in half -- or more -- when driving in-city. It is kind of stupid to have to stop at nearly every stoplight. Especially stupid to have to re-accelerate after every one. If we were to co-ordinate our traffic flow to a level twice as efficient, then we might increase our mileages from 7 1/2 to at least 10 miles per gallon. This will save all of us here about $200,000+ a day, or a million a working-week, or $52 million a year in unnecessary fuel use. While this seemingly simple solution may seem obvious, we don't have the political will or funds to create an efficient highway system. Not yet.