Jason
Posts:3378
 | | 08/09/2007 9:37 AM |
 Alert | | At 347 southbound and Smith-Enke, there is only one turn lane to turn left onto S-E. Why? There is clearly enough room with that gigantic striped area. There is clearly enough demand from the fact that traffic routinely backs up north of the Cobblestone traffic light. | |
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caveman
Posts:1074
| | 08/09/2007 11:24 AM |
Alert | | I am with you. This town needs to fix its road system to help accommodate the growth that has taken place. If they can pave a temporary parking lot for half a million why can't we get a few extra turn lanes in the city, especially this one where the road is already paved. | | | |
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Sinbad
Posts:3046
| | 08/09/2007 11:26 AM |
Alert | Caveman...
They aren't going to fix anything if you keep calling it a TOWN....
It's a City now.. and they need to run it as such. | |
Just doing it one day at a time. Change is good and it should be looked upon as an improvment! not a problem.
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Jason
Posts:3378
| | 08/09/2007 11:31 AM |
Alert | | Yeah, I don't understand it. It's just a simple restriping. While they're at it they could retime the light so that 347 also gets a trailing green arrow. In other words, it would go from red to green arrow, to green light to green arrow and then back to red. Would tremendously improve traffic. | |
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High i
Posts:120
| | 08/09/2007 9:47 PM |
Alert | I've been wondering the same thing since I moved here. The only thing that makes me worry about them opening the second lane is that they will probably get rid of the left turn on a solid green and replace it with a red arrow if there is more than one lane turning. I don't really understand why the traffic engineers do this, but I've seen it many times in the past.
The other thing that I don't get is why the stoplights are so screwed up. Smith Enke gets way too long of a green light crossing 347. There are usually only a few cars waiting to go straight across and they get about a 20 second green while the traffic on 347 backs up for blocks. This is just one example of many noted. It really is quite easy to time stoplights in a city so maximize traffic flow through the high volume areas. Cities have been doing it for as long as I can remember, even before the stoplights were all computerized. | | | |
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rule11
Posts:344
| | 08/09/2007 10:34 PM |
Alert | | more people are moving to this town every month, if they city does not respond adequately to our transportation needs, then we're ________. | |
i don't like people who uses "signature" on their profile. TAKE IT OFF!!! | |
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Jason
Posts:3378
| | 08/09/2007 11:03 PM |
Alert | | See, I never understood that rule either. Las Vegas has double turn lanes with green lights, you just see two lines of cars queued up. Worked well I thought. | |
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PKMet
Posts:244
| | 08/11/2007 10:45 AM |
Alert | | Because our city government sucks. | |
They are who we thought they were! | |
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