Why bother?

[Martin Cassini]

On the subject of the forthcoming traffic trial, an engineer asked, if there are no gains in efficiency and safety without controls, "why bother to remove them?" Is he oblivious to warnings of ecological meltdown? Has he missed the carbon impact of traffic control? It could be argued that even if FiT increased journey times (highly unlikely), the energy savings alone from switching off lights and eliminating the stop-start drive cycle would outweigh every other consideration.