[Uptown] Erb/Bridgeport/Caroline/Albert Reconstruction

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To the advocates of the "green wave": I know this is illogical, but traffic does not move at 50km/h just because the lights are timed that way. Drivers see a wide open road, and drive accordingly, even if it means they later meet a red light they otherwise wouldn't have had to.

If it's wide open, then the Green Wave isn't needed. Racing ahead? Sure, whatever. Makes no difference to the cars in front or behind because there aren't any of them.

It's when congestion reaches a certain point that the Green Wave is needed and can shine. From that density of vehicles you only need a couple of people who know about it and a liberal dose of herd instinct to have a traffic volume travelling at the designed speed.

There are and always will be outliers. The people who, through malice or ignorance, decide to race ahead and have to come to a full stop at a waiting red light. So long as these are few enough, they shouldn't clog the intersections enough to worry the wave.

Anecdotally, I like riding the green wave home from the airport after picking someone up from the Calgary flight. Or I did, before Caroline @ Erb suffered the trench war (or whatever caused those artillery craters).