Traffic-Sense And Road Awareness
Whom should i complain for poor traffic light system and poorer traffic policing @ Hyderabad ?
Now i am fed up with the inefficient police and tarffic signal system@ hyderabad. If the police is absent there is no Jam @ Paradise , Patni, Sangeet , etc etc . Is it just coincidence ?
Home minister is responsible but she is ineffective.
January 24th, 2010
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Would a two tier system cure our traffic problems, Cars on the upper tier, heavy goods below?
Not impossible.
Not impossible if we used road tax for roads.
It sounds good,,,,,until you get to an intersection. Then you have two lanes becoming one. No way around it unless you have at least two exit ramps. Keep in mind, also, that you will need to figure out just which has the shortest ramp.
How about the upper deck for through traffic in constantly congested areas? If you are going through the area, there’s no need for local exits.
January 16th, 2010
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How can i reduce traffic congestion using GPS device?
i live in a third world country (Dhaka, Bangladesh). dhaka is the capital of bangladesh. it’s really a jam pron country. our traffic monitoring system is human based. so, i need complete system chat or any thing like that. thanks in advance.
I live in Dhaka too and I’m getting frustrated for the huge traffic jam that we experience here in workdays. I was in Iran 1977-79 & the traffic jam of Tehran was notorious in those days standard. There were so many good roads and some flyovers, but the capital was bogged down due to congestions on the road. Same thing repeated in Bangkok and many other big cities of the world, even though these cities & countries have much superior road and traffic signals with police supervision than what miserable condition we have here in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
To compound with our miseries the V.V.I.P. entourages (mostly the President & Prime Minister-maximum) would shut-down such congested road so that their convoy can go at 100km/hr in free roads to attend ‘important’ functions, one of these were party’s (Awami League) function held at China Bangladesh Friendship Hall (now renamed to Banga Bandhu…, a generic Prefix in these days for naming anything important).
I suggest that all the Schools are shifted within suitable distance of each residential areas, like Dhanmondi, Gulshan, Banani, Baridhara, Uttara, Mogh Bazar, Khilgaon, Mirpur, Mohammadpur etc. City Bus services for students would be made available so that parents need not to send car, rickshaw, scooter & such transport for each student’s movement.
The second alternate is maximise use of Circular Waterways (which has been abandoned in these days), circular-road, circular-train etc so that reasonable number of people can get access to the point of their business coming from outside periphery of the city, rather crisscrossing the busy streets to reach their destinations.
We need to have many more flyovers and under/overpass to make a dent to reduce traffic congestions. The present railway tracks extending upto Kamalapur Rail Station is bone of contentions in our traffic jam scenario. You would find that some 5 to 10 boggies (local or express or goods trains) are hurtled out at a slower pace while the level-crossing gates are kept down for some 10 to 20 minutes to the annoyance of the users of roads. There were plan to have flyovers at major level crossings, but you can see that the government is yet to have one placed at Kakoli (near the Army Stadium) level crossing that is straddled on our major highway leading to Airport.
Btw, have you noticed how the heart of our road system has been ‘controlled by the Army installations and its police at Cantonment, BDR at Pilkhana and also Ansars at Khilgaon? Is it necessary to have such forces living and doing their exercises (PT Parade etc) when hungry and inconvenient people are in traffic jams and they have ownership of the major roads? Who will shove these giants away from busy city areas? Only the Police barracks are necessary and let them have it at their present places at Rajarbagh, but then also they need not to have that large real estate occupied for Parade ground and such ceremonial events.
Hope we are having better days ahead, but very doubtful. A complete system may not come in a ‘package’, but small improvements in existing network with major infusion of money to modernize the road & railway infrastructures would one day minimize the unbearable situation those are prevailing ow.
November 20th, 2009
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What factor IS NOT a part of the highway traffic system?
HELP ME OUT WITH MY TRAFFIC SCHOOL I NEED HELP WITH THIS QUESTION PLEASE
A. The environment
B. Highways
C. Drivers
D. Television stations
D. TV Stations.
November 2nd, 2009
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I understand that an Afro-American person invented traffic lights,true ?
Anyone with info regarding the humble traffic light system and its original concept and inventor , much appreciated.
This is wikipedia answer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_light
Modern pattented then yes
Was he the original inventor then no as it had alredy been used in london england with gas lamps.
On 10 December 1868, the first traffic lights were installed outside the British Houses of Parliament in London, by the railway engineer J. P. Knight. They resembled railway signals of the time, with semaphore arms and red and green gas lamps for night use. The gas lantern was turned with a lever at its base so that the appropriate light faced traffic. Unfortunately, it exploded on 2 January 1869, injuring the policeman who was operating it.
The modern electric traffic light is an American invention.[9] As early as 1912 in Salt Lake City, Utah, policeman Lester Wire invented the first red-green electric traffic lights. On 5 August 1914, the American Traffic Signal Company installed a traffic signal system on the corner of East 105th Street and Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio.[10][11] It had two colors, red and green, and a buzzer, based on the design of James Hoge, to provide a warning for color changes. The design by James Hoge[12] allowed police and fire stations to control the signals in case of emergency. The first four-way, three-color traffic light was created by police officer William Potts in Detroit, Michigan in 1920.[13] In 1923, Garrett Morgan patented a traffic signal device. It was Morgan’s experience while driving along the streets of Cleveland that led to his invention of a traffic signal device.[14] Ashville, Ohio claims to be the location of the oldest working traffic light in the United States, used at an intersection of public roads until 1982 when it was moved to a local museum.[15]
The first interconnected traffic signal system was installed in Salt Lake City in 1917, with six connected intersections controlled simultaneously from a manual switch. Automatic control of interconnected traffic lights was introduced March 1922 in Houston, Texas.[16] The first automatic experimental traffic lights in England were deployed in Wolverhampton in 1927.[17]
Ampelmännchen pedestrian traffic signals have come to be seen as a nostalgic sign for the former German Democratic Republic.
The color of the traffic lights representing stop and go are likely derived from those used to identify port (red) and starboard (green) in maritime rules governing right of way, where the vessel on the left must stop for the one crossing on the right
October 27th, 2009
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I understand that an Afro-American person invented traffic lights,true ?
Anyone with info regarding the humble traffic light system and its original concept and inventor , much appreciated.
This is wikipedia answer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_light
Modern pattented then yes
Was he the original inventor then no as it had alredy been used in london england with gas lamps.
On 10 December 1868, the first traffic lights were installed outside the British Houses of Parliament in London, by the railway engineer J. P. Knight. They resembled railway signals of the time, with semaphore arms and red and green gas lamps for night use. The gas lantern was turned with a lever at its base so that the appropriate light faced traffic. Unfortunately, it exploded on 2 January 1869, injuring the policeman who was operating it.
The modern electric traffic light is an American invention.[9] As early as 1912 in Salt Lake City, Utah, policeman Lester Wire invented the first red-green electric traffic lights. On 5 August 1914, the American Traffic Signal Company installed a traffic signal system on the corner of East 105th Street and Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio.[10][11] It had two colors, red and green, and a buzzer, based on the design of James Hoge, to provide a warning for color changes. The design by James Hoge[12] allowed police and fire stations to control the signals in case of emergency. The first four-way, three-color traffic light was created by police officer William Potts in Detroit, Michigan in 1920.[13] In 1923, Garrett Morgan patented a traffic signal device. It was Morgan’s experience while driving along the streets of Cleveland that led to his invention of a traffic signal device.[14] Ashville, Ohio claims to be the location of the oldest working traffic light in the United States, used at an intersection of public roads until 1982 when it was moved to a local museum.[15]
The first interconnected traffic signal system was installed in Salt Lake City in 1917, with six connected intersections controlled simultaneously from a manual switch. Automatic control of interconnected traffic lights was introduced March 1922 in Houston, Texas.[16] The first automatic experimental traffic lights in England were deployed in Wolverhampton in 1927.[17]
Ampelmännchen pedestrian traffic signals have come to be seen as a nostalgic sign for the former German Democratic Republic.
The color of the traffic lights representing stop and go are likely derived from those used to identify port (red) and starboard (green) in maritime rules governing right of way, where the vessel on the left must stop for the one crossing on the right
October 27th, 2009
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Do you have to pay for FM traffic receiver on gps systems?
I was told that certain features (such as the FM traffic receiver to avoid traffic) costs a monthly service fee like a cell phone. Is that true? I want a good gps but I don’t want to have to have a service for it.
yes in most cases you have to pay for the FM traffic I now right know that the Garmin Nuvi 265T is offering a free lifetime traffic service with the purchase on the item.
October 9th, 2009
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Do you have to pay for FM traffic receiver on gps systems?
I was told that certain features (such as the FM traffic receiver to avoid traffic) costs a monthly service fee like a cell phone. Is that true? I want a good gps but I don’t want to have to have a service for it.
yes in most cases you have to pay for the FM traffic I now right know that the Garmin Nuvi 265T is offering a free lifetime traffic service with the purchase on the item.
October 9th, 2009
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any car navigation systems that can show U real time traffic & weather conditions in a certain city?
The one in my CTS does – if I subscribe to XM Radio.
What I found was
1) I know the weather – I am outside, driving in it.
2) The traffic updates are about 20 minutes behind "real time". Since I was sitting in the traffic, I knew what that was, too.
I found both "features" useless.
October 7th, 2009
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Do you have to pay for FM traffic receiver on gps systems?
I was told that certain features (such as the FM traffic receiver to avoid traffic) costs a monthly service fee like a cell phone. Is that true? I want a good gps but I don’t want to have to have a service for it.
Usually, yes – traffic services costs extra, it’s monthly but it’s not much
The Nuvi 265WT does include free lifetime traffic service from Navteq and that device retails at $350, but can be found for just over $200 if you hunt down a good deal.
Overall, that may be your best value if you want the traffic service but not the monthly bill.
October 7th, 2009
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