You don’t have to put on the red light

THE ‘flat-screen’ traffic lights are finally with us and judging from the preview that Kigali’s commuters witnessed for a day or two last week, they’re a lot smarter than the traffic lights we had in the past that used a simple timer mechanism with no concession to traffic flow patterns. There is something hypnotic about counting down the changing of lights with the flat-screen rather than the usual unflinching stare at the analog traffic lights of the past.