Description
The road sensor on route 9 coming south causes the green to cycle to yellow and red as soon as you hit it. There is not enough time to stop before going through it. There is no oncoming traffic from either Kinns or Farm to Market or Route 9 north to trigger this behavior. I tested it last night in the middle of the night, with no other traffic, and this is duplicatable. Does it every single time. Either programmed wrong or a board has an issue on the controller. Also, it would be good to have an electronic sign on both the north and south sides of Rt 9 about 1/4 of a mile from the intersection that tell you when the light is going to change, and that you will not be able to make it through the intersection before it changes. There are a lot of crashes here, and this would be a low cost safety improvement that would save lives.
3 Comments
An anonymous SeeClickFix user (Registered User)
I checked this tonight again. It is still cycling when you hit the sensor, but a longer delay, so you hit the sensor before the light, and you get through the light with about 5 seconds before it goes to red.
There is no reason it should be doing this. I have watched the light cycle even when no traffic is coming in any direction. just sitting watching the light, it changes, as though it was one of the old fashioned lights that had the wheel and the levers.
If it is programmed to do this, there is no need to make it change like this. Leave it on route 9 green as the default.
If traffic on Farm to Market or Kinns trips the sensor, then it should go green for them, then back to red for both those, and stay green for Route 9.
Just makes more sense.
Closed Al Karoly (Registered User)
An anonymous SeeClickFix user (Registered User)