This is an excellent example of what is wrong with our species. Most people seem to be incapable of thinking of the greater good, of anything other than what serves them best and are so damn impatient. Their selfishness blinds them to the fact that thinking of others is often more efficient than being selfish. Observant drivers, the few there are, notice that hurrying rarely helps.
In most developed countries the traffic lights have a sequence that makes speeding relatively pointless and if you are observant you can learn the sequence and get where you are going smoothly and economically whilst rarely braking. I have regularly driven trips which take me through twenty and more sets of traffic lights without ever stopping because I had learned the sequence after having driven that route a couple of times. Most people could drive the same route to and from work at the same times five days a week for years without even noticing there is a sequence.
Cities spend a lot of money trying to get the traffic to flow as efficiently as possible with the resources they have but most of the time they are wasting their time because in the end it’s up to the road users as to whether traffic will flow, crawl or stop altogether. Road rules are there for a reason. It appears that a vast majority of drivers feel that road rules are nothing more than an inconvenience to them or when they are enforced merely a way for governments to collect revenue.
In this picture there are over sixty drivers who should be fined for proceeding into a blocked intersection or stopping on tram tracks. Fully half of the vehicles on this intersection are driving illegally. I hope there are cameras and every twat there gets a fine in the mail. You can guarantee that every one of them is getting angry at everyone else. It’s always someone else’s fault.
Et in Al-Qaeda ego.
Resource wars.
“spreading democracy”, or spreading 1 billion people all acting selfishly?
great post!