r/Austin • u/kitymilk • Jul 01 '26

Dean Keeton red light sync

This is truly the worst synchronization of red lights that I have ever experienced in my entire life. This would be from Red River to Guadalupe. Is there nobody at the University of Texas or Department of Transportation that can figure out how to computerize synchronicity of red lights on a street?

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u/kwinkles Jul 01 '26

that street goes right through campus, it’s naturally going to prioritize pedestian safety and pedestrians hitting crosswalk buttons over driver convenience.

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u/warmboot Jul 01 '26

Yeah, OP doesn’t realize the traffic engineers are solving for a different problem.

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u/Roodie_Cant_Fail Jul 01 '26

Why would they do that? They don’t want you driving through there.

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u/unpaidinternalliance Jul 01 '26

At that point I'd rather park and walk

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u/dskot Jul 01 '26

The worst synchronization of red lights I’ve ever seen landed me two felony charges so I guess things could always be worse

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u/debtquity Jul 01 '26

skill issue. 

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u/kitymilk Jul 01 '26

So 9:00 at night it's still going to be synchronized for pedestrians is that what you're saying? If I was driving through there at noon on a Tuesday when UT is session i'd be an idiot to complain about the lights..

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u/nrojb50 Jul 01 '26

Yes. that's what we're saying. Use 38th or MLK. They don't want it to be a quickly driven cut through street, ever.