I side with those favoring engineering solutions to the problem of dangerous intersections. In these days, when most of us are concerned with gasoline mileage and most traffic lights are controlled by a central computer, there is no good reason why it remains impossible to drive from one end of Cedar Lane to the other, or from one end of Snowden Riiver Parkway to the other or along any of the other red-light-camera-laced roads without hitting red light after red light.

If I knew that getting stopped at a light would just get me in sync with the rest of the intersections, there would be no reason to accelerate to get through on yellow and I would happily drive a few mph below the speed limit if it minimized the stop-and-go of what is an inefficient, random sequence of traffic lights.

I imagine all of us taxpayers burning up gas waiting at red lights, repeatedly accelerating from zero to 40 are spending away far more than the dubious $200,000 profit the county is earning from the red-light cameras. County Executive Ulman, fix this problem and I'm ready to work on your re-election campaign.

Louis Nagel

Fulton

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