The Embarrassment Of Subic Traffic Lights

Comment from a reader on "Subic’s Silly Intersections":

Quote form the Bulletin... SBMA is struggling desperately with how to manage simple intersections inside the Freeport. (Can you image if these guys were responsible for organizing intersection traffic in a real city?!)

The situation is a real mess and each solution offered by SBMA makes the situation worse. In addition to the stop lights, that change regularly in bizarre combinations of blinking yellow, blinking red, etc. when they aren’t burned out, there are the contradictory stop signs/traffic lights you mention. Also, SBMA police don’t follow the simple rule – known by traffic cops worldwide – that you never direct traffic against the light when working an intersection.

For longtime residents of Subic, after the frustration subsides over this chronic issue, the humor seeps in. (We now just giggle when we sit at a Subic intersection and the vehicles are at a dead stop at a blinking yellow light, while the vehicles at the blinking red light inch forward, while other vehicles zoom around the stopped vehicles at the blinking yellow, and the police watch from their Jollibee booth.)

[The Subic Bulletin] We agree with you, but we can't understand why the traffic lights work so well in Clark, in fact they are upgrading them to the new lights that count down the seconds until the light changes, the traffic seems better managed so the cops are not having to step out and wave cars through on the red light. Why can Clark manage this well but Subic fails dismally?
We know it already that the first reader of this comment will say "but Clark doesn't have the big volume of tourists that Subic does", so how come they can afford nice new traffic lights and we can't? If we have the tourists clogging up the roads then they must be spending money here.