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It is quite maddening to have to provide personal information to report a bug. My city stopped allowing anonymous reports of broken traffic lights, so every time I report one (much rarer now that they’ve made it harder) I always give bogus information.

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Wow ... how often do traffic lights break in your city?!

I see a burnt-out bulb at least once a week.

Interesting. I feel like it's something I've only seen very occasionally - I don't remember when I last noticed one. Maybe you just have a much higher density of traffic lights where you live, which would make it more common to see failures; and/or maybe they're a different type or differently maintained.

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The relevant part about the old incandescent bulbs is at 3mins 14secs

I have never seen that.. should we be exporting (/presumably reselling) bulbs?!

Hey look Jimbob! The consultant says if we added obnoxious paperwork requirements, there'd be fewer broken traffic lights! I don't know how that's possible, but by-golly it worked!

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