There's been a rumor bouncing around Texas for years, that the Highway dep't is mostly staffed by Texas A&M Grads, and they decided to have some fun with Austin's freeways, while the little town of College Station got really well designed roads.
I always figure it was Aggies responsible for the synchronization of traffic lights, or lack thereof, on the main drags through B/CS.
I was walking back from campus around 3am on account of some Grad student-related thing, mostly deserted streets at that hour, when I heard a guy stopped at yet another red light yell
"F&&&&&&K!!I'M ALREADY AN HOUR LATE AND I GOT ANOTHER F&&&&KING RED LIGHT!!"Trust me, I could feel his pain.
Birdwatcher