California merg lights
These stop lights needed their own explanation. They are there for allowing traffic to enter the highway, supposedly to assist with merging. They fire off rapidly, changing from red to yellow to green then back to red, all in about 4 seconds. To add to the confusion, there is a light for each lane, and in several cases, multiple lights for each lane, firing at different rates, so usually you end up running a red light, inevitably. The thing is, this does nothing to help with traffic merging, but only slows traffic more, and cars let through the lights end up backing up to merge anyways, as you can see in the second picture. The freeways, side roads, parking lots, and pretty much everywhere a vehicle can go, throughout the places we've been to in California, have been perpetually grid locked, and they are not properly maintained, in fact California has the worst roads that I have ever driven on.
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