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there's quite a lot of research showing that accelerating rapidly from light to light and then decreasing speed quickly causes tailbacks - or has ripple effects on traffic. Much better to amble slowy/adjust speed so that one doesn't need to stop, rather than stop-accelerateasfastaspossibletonextred-stop-etc then traffic adjusts and gridlock/bottlenecks dissipate naturally.