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Old Posted Mar 8, 2019, 8:25 PM
Londonee Londonee is offline
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Center City has a lot of streets with synchronized lights. Pine, Spruce, Lombard, South St West all have synced lights - set to 20mph. Even South Broad certain times of day (not at night to prevent drag racing I was told) has them synced to around 20mph. There's even a green street sign that indicate the start of a sync'd row of lights that says "LIGHTS TIMED TO 20MPH."

The issue is with 1 and 2 lane streets - often being blocked/congested w/ ubers/cyclists/buses/delivers and less than 30 second timers on lights - if you fall at all below the average pace of 20mph you'll hit a light in a few blocks. But off-peak time, on a sunday morning for example, you can cruise around no problem right at 20mph.

Begs the question with some of our more frequent posters....have you guys, like, ever been to center city?