Week 10: Essay 3 Final Draft

When your driving either on post, coming off, going to North Pole, or coming from North Pole during the day time and you come to that intersection with the four traffic lights that take you either to base, to North Pole, Steese Express or Airport Way, everything seems to be in order, you get where you need to be on time. Most of us have been through these lights plenty of times and nothing seems to be out of the ordinary. It is not until you come to the intersection sometime after mid-night when things get out of whack. So lets say your coming off post at one o'clock a.m, and you pull up to the traffic light and stop, your light has just turned red so your just waiting three more turns, now your waiting two more turns one more turn, then you take your foot off the break because you see the light just before yours turn yellow and your getting ready to go, and just as it turns red the light after yours turns green then you have to slam on breaks. Your thinking "what the heck just happened." So you pull up some more because you think "maybe I'm not close enough," and it skips you again. Then you pull back some because you think "well maybe I'm up too far," and again it skips you, now you don't know what to do. Then out of no where it turns green and you slam on the gas pedal to get the heck out of there as fast as possible, because you don't want to get stuck again.
The city doesn't know this because most of their work is done before this time. And in the summer they work on the roads so their work is during the day time. And even if they were to experience a moment like that, they still might just blow it off because they don't think that it happens too often.
If you work a grave yard shift this can really hurt you, because most people when they go to work they make sure they have just enough time to start their car and drive to work to be on time with no time to spare. Everything is going good until you come to the light and it skips your turn about two times and makes you late. Now you have to tell your boss you was late because the traffic light skipped you, can you imagine what your boss is thinking in their head, because they don't know about the light, so you know that they think your lying, but they don't tell you they just say okay. The next day it happens again, you tell them the same thing but this time they think it's just an excuse, but still they let it go. For some reason you still seem to go that way even though you know it's just going to happen again.
What about when you have a date, you don't want to be late on the first date, but you can't control the time or that light so what happens, your late because of that light. Now the first time your late your date thinks nothing of it, but too many times and you won't have to worry about being late late for that date anymore because you won't be seeing them anymore.
A lot of times when people come to that light they stop and wait for their turn as normal, but when they see that it skips them they get impatient, they might wait one maybe two more times, but eventually they will loose patience and just run it. And you know they have to really be impatient because they know that there is a camera above the traffic light and they still just run it, even if they know the risks. If only ten maybe even fifteen people got together and either complained which might get them no where or requested that they fix the lights then it would make everyone else's life just that much better.
Although the Airport Way street lights work during the day, the city should come at night to service them because they often skip turns, it would help people to get where they need to go on time, and they would have less people running red lights.