bloody traffic lights

The Road Traffic people have lost the plot here in Victoria, not sure what it's like in other states but the seem to put of traffic lights in at the drop of hat.

A bloke rang complaining on radio that it took over 100 minutes non peak hour to travel from Frankston to the city (40odd K); he stopped at 158 traffic lights.

When I enter the Nepean H/W and travel at 4k's I can stop at 8 sets of lights.

You stop for a kid riding across on a bike then for people making a U turn to enter Bunnings and then at lights for people who want to go into Bunnings, then at the odd intersection it goes on and on.

Bunnings seem to be able dictate where the lights go.

Highways used to thorough fair; now they are just a congested mess!