Resident proposes traffic lights solution
Could traffic lights be put on a separate power grid?
Editor – The EMPD’s media liaison officer explained the department’s difficulties (Express, May 5) and I am sure many readers could understand that situation, apart from the obvious fact that probably more EMPD officers need to be employed.
In this technologically-advanced age let’s face it, man first landed on the moon more than fifty years ago, the Hubble Telescope took photographs from millions of miles away and sent them back to earth, and today’s mobile phones can do so much more than simply make and receive a call, isn’t it within the realms of possibility that 'someone, somewhere' could put traffic lights onto a separate electrical circuit? When our (tongue in cheek) 'beloved' Eskom cannot cope with the demand for electricity (not an infrequent occurrence), why can’t power be fed to traffic lights, as it doubtless is to other essential services, such as hospitals, and so on?
Over to those with more knowledge than I, to explain either why it hasn’t been done yet, or why it cannot be done.
P James.
