In New York or Chicago, there are police officers who direct traffic during the rush hour. In Toronto, we don't have police with this job description. When there are incidents, we see police cars blocking the road. The officer is either inside the vehicle, standing beside the vehicle, or standing at the corner of the road. Knowing that they have blocked the road, no officer will walk further away from the intersection to redirect traffic. Everyone has to drive to the deadlock to finally discover what has happened. Similarly, when the intersection is extremely conjested due to a traffic light timing error. No police is showing up to help. It seems that the police doesn't know they have the right (or are not given the right) to override traffic lights and redirect traffic. But if the police are given this right, they aren't too excited about it.
I was in Chicago last month. Upon driving out of a Metra train station parking lot, I saw a police officer stopping the main traffic, instructing all vehicles from the parking lot to disregard the STOP sign and cross the road as fast as possible. Will we ever see this kind of police service in Toronto?
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