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This random 5th tier city shows stoplight timings on navigation apps. (thelemmy.club)
submitted 3 days ago* by to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world
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Nice so you don't have to floor it to make a yellow or Kickstart your air-cooled motorcycle when a long red turns green.

The timing is off by 3 seconds to stop people from going just before it turns green. So people go 4 seconds early.

A map of a city shows an upcoming stoplight with 74 seconds left until green.
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[–] [S] 10 points 3 days ago (1 child)

America has like 3 real cities, nyc, Chicago, DC, Boston.

If you need a car to get around you don't have a city, you have an overgrown suburb.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 hours ago*

    i'd remove Chicago and DC, and add Philadelphia.
    DC is fine but as soon as you leave downtown it becomes barely better than the american norm (the subway is honestly hilarious, "downtown largo" yeah right lmao by that logic NYC is "downtown USA").
    Basically the same with Chicago, it's "fine" but very quickly the subway just stops and it's back to an endless sea of dogshit suburbia.

    NYC and Boston are the only ones i would confidently call "actually acceptable", and even then Boston only qualifies because the downtown-fenway-brookline corridor is effectively a transplanted piece of NYC..

    Like, fuck.. Literally just hoboken is a more proper place than all the other american cities, it's insane.

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