With my current schedule, traffic on El Camino is usually horrendous when I have to get to work. I often wind up taking the express skip-stop bus to Scott, which is where the largely dead strip mall has been replaced by the snazzy Santa Clara Town Centre shopping development. The intersection now has suspended traffic lights in addition to the pole-mounted ones, and pigeons roost behind the colored filters, so that as it cycles from green, to amber, to red, a different pigeon is revealed in silhouette going about housekeeping.
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