Does Everyone Avoid Stopping at the Traffic Lights of Torrington?

Maybe it's the abundance of stores that build their parking lots around street corners, but I've noticed that nobody stops at traffic lights in Torrington, everyone cuts through parking lots to avoid waiting, have you noticed this?

I moved to Torrington from Waterbury three years ago, we settled on S. Main Street, and one of the first things that I noticed was impatient drivers at the intersection of S. Main and Albert Street cutting through the Cumberland Farms and Coffeehouse/Smoking Ape parking lots to avoid waiting for the traffic light. It wasn't just there, it's all over the city.

Yesterday, my wife and I went to Jimmy's Store on 202 to pick up some lunch, and she was the one that noticed the sign begging drivers to 'Please be considerate, Do Not Cut Through Parking Lot. Honest to God, as we were taking the photo you see above, two vehicles making their way to BJ's cut through Jimmy's parking lot to make their way onto Torringford Street to avoid waiting the :40 seconds at the traffic signal. Is :40-:45 seconds too long of a wait? I'm amazed at the level of impatient drivers in town.

Overall, my hometown of Torrington is a very clean and well-organized city, with attentive Police Officers that will pull you over for a missing license plate bulb (Twice, for me anyway). Obviously, there are way more important moving violations to enforce, but maybe it's time for a few traffic studies? Some sweet Connecticut DOT survey money?