$400 Million Later, LA Becomes the Only Major City in the World with Synchronized Red Lights

Los Angeles is a great city for a lot of reasons. Traffic is not one of them. So, over the past three decades, the city's spent nearly half a billion dollars creating the "the Automated Traffic Surveillance and Control system." In brief, the city just synched up its 4,500 red lights. Traffic-measuring magnets, cameras and many many computers are involved in what The New York Times calls "one of the world's most comprehensive systems for mitigating traffic." Sounds pretty awesome, right? The only problem: It might not work that well.



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