Well, contrary to most but agreeing with Jeff Canes, I like the first best of all, precisely BECAUSE you can see the crossing and the lights and the cars all clearly in the background, and then the light trails in the front. Very neat effect, I think (personally). Since I all agree with Jeff on this one, also I would suggest you crop off the lights of the oncoming cars on the very left, though.
John, if you can set your cameras to self-timer, and if there is a way to set it to 2 seconds, you can release, get your hands off your camera and let it take the photos all by itself without any shaking. I can't attach a remote shutter release to my little compact digital camera and I still manage to get some light streaks. 2 seconds is a bit short, indeed, unless you go out at dusk.
And something that I have learned only here on TPF (thanks, TPF!!!! Thanks, members!!!) is: you need to use a very small aperture. The smallest I can set is f8 and I use that! Doesn't yet give me as starry lights as I would like to have, but I can see that I am on my way

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Jocose, sorry to be highjacking your thread for this...... Again: my favourite of these three is the first!
