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Traffic lights are timed to make you drive slightly slower

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You are not encountering terrible luck on your morning commute, you are battling urban planners. Civil engineers intentionally program intersection lights to force drivers into moving at a specific, slower pace to arbitrarily control congestion patterns.

Traffic lights are timed to make you drive slightly slower
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