Is it really this hard to keep a traffic light going? For the last four days, each morning, the traffic lights outside my apartment have been working. Then, each afternoon they break, and begin blinking red while the walk light goes dim.

I understand that things are hard to fix, but I don’t get this one. It seems like there is some sort of computer bug on it. Or maybe someone is doing it on purpose. I can see it now, at the traffic control center:

“Hey, its 11:00 A.M again Bill, wadaya think we should do? Should we shut off the light again?”

“Oh, sure man, go ahead. What’s the problem with one less pedestrian walking the streets anyway? Just be sure to have it on in the morning.”

“Lemme get that switch!”

Then again I hear computers do run these things. Maybe it is more like this over at traffic control central:

“00100110100010110?”

“0101110010001100100101.”

“1101001011!”

“2!”

“2? 2!!!! *bzzzzzzt….*”

I mean it though, this has been four days in a row, at the same time. This would not be a problem were it not Hennipen Avenue and people were not busy as hell and in a rush. No one wants to wait. I have seen cars come withen inches of each other. We kinda need traffic lights. One light is out and that is all it took for people to forget how to drive.