Abu Dhabi Traffic
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 by Rob
I hate Abu Dhabi traffic, its not quite as bad as D.C. traffic but it still sucks. What drives me nuts is the time limit on a lot of the lights. I'm sorry but if you are on a major road like Elecktra the light should last longer then 5 seconds. Anyways, I've come up a with a super simple way for the RTA to fix it.
Lets say I'm driving on the Corniche, right now if I'm headed up the Corniche and I have a green light I can do two things, make a U-turn or go straight. Those that are going down the Corniche are SOL because they have a red light and can't go anywhere. So here we go the easiest way to fix this is have the lights green if you are going straight, that way both up and down can be moving. After a few minutes of those lights being green they can turn red and the lights for making U-Turns or turning can turn green. When the time limit is up on those the lights for turning onto the Corniche can turn green. HOLY CRAP I just fixed the stupid traffic on the Corniche.
This isn't just for the Corniche either, this method can be applied just about anywhere. I do hope people for the RTA contact me and tell me how awesome I am. Oh and by the way if you are not in the lane to turn right or left (that being the lane farthest to the right or left) don't frigging turn. The lane second over from the right or left is not a turning lane, if it was it would have a little arrow that says "Hey fool you can turn here".
Lets say I'm driving on the Corniche, right now if I'm headed up the Corniche and I have a green light I can do two things, make a U-turn or go straight. Those that are going down the Corniche are SOL because they have a red light and can't go anywhere. So here we go the easiest way to fix this is have the lights green if you are going straight, that way both up and down can be moving. After a few minutes of those lights being green they can turn red and the lights for making U-Turns or turning can turn green. When the time limit is up on those the lights for turning onto the Corniche can turn green. HOLY CRAP I just fixed the stupid traffic on the Corniche.
This isn't just for the Corniche either, this method can be applied just about anywhere. I do hope people for the RTA contact me and tell me how awesome I am. Oh and by the way if you are not in the lane to turn right or left (that being the lane farthest to the right or left) don't frigging turn. The lane second over from the right or left is not a turning lane, if it was it would have a little arrow that says "Hey fool you can turn here".
Nooo!
I LOVE being able to create my own turning lanes. It's the BEST thing about driving here!
I will agree about the two-way through-traffic solution though. I've never been in a place where only ONE direction got a green light at a time.