{"id":5747,"date":"2014-06-01T23:31:28","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T23:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=5747"},"modified":"2014-06-01T23:31:28","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T23:31:28","slug":"street-light-turns-annoying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=5747","title":{"rendered":"Street light turns annoying"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The older I get the more pet peeves I acquire.<\/p>\n

It’s part of life, I reckon.<\/p>\n

But one peeve that has annoyed me since I was, well, much younger is a light that turns red for no apparent reason, forcing me to stop — again for no apparent reason.<\/p>\n

I encountered such a light today in downtown Amarillo.<\/p>\n

My wife and I were traveling northbound on Buchanan Street, right in front of the Amarillo Civic Center when — presto! — the light at the Globe-News Center for the Performing Arts turned red. We braked quickly to stop; didn’t want a traffic ticket, you know.<\/p>\n

Why the annoyance?<\/p>\n

The light sits in front of the Globe-News center parking lot, which shortly before 1 p.m. today was empty. No vehicles could be seen on it. Anywhere.<\/p>\n

Thus, the question: Why doesn’t the city traffic department turn that light off when no one is using the Globe-News Center?<\/p>\n

The technology is there. The city can switch the light across Buchanan to blinking yellow — or it can just turn the signal off completely.<\/p>\n

Let me reiterate: There is zero need to stop traffic <\/em>at that location when nothing is happening at the performing arts venue.<\/p>\n

I’m good now … until the next peevish bur gets under my saddle.<\/p>\n\n

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The older I get the more pet peeves I acquire. It’s part of life, I reckon. But one peeve that has annoyed me since I was, well, much younger is a light that turns red for no apparent reason, forcing me to stop — again for no apparent reason. I encountered such a light today … Continue reading Street light turns annoying<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[293,1929,4880],"class_list":["post-5747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amarillo-civic-center","tag-globe-news-center-for-performing-arts","tag-traffic-lights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}