Traffic Signals

How ingenious of our traffic control people to “discover” the possibilities of synchronized traffic signals (Metro, Dec. 29)! They’re only 50 years (at least) behind the times.

In 1938, I drove the entire length of Atlantic City, N.J., at the recommended speed of 25 m.p.h., without once stopping for a traffic signal. There was one at every intersection, but they’d all been synchronized (and without the benefit of computers).

The need for such traffic control has been painfully obvious in Los Angeles for years and years. And now they’re just going to “phase it in slowly”?

JON HOLIDAY

North Hollywood