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The Red light at the bottom of the hill of Hinkson Blvd to get onto Chester Pike (whether it be to make a right or a left) is over 4 and a half minutes long. There is a sign posted on the traffic light as well that there are no right turns allowed except weekends. So, a line of cars always piles up in the morning, and then when the light changes, finally!, it turns red within a 30 second time frame and you end up sitting there again for another 4 and a half minutes should you not make it. This light needs to be timed a bit better for the residents of Ridley Park or right turns need to be allowed. For the amount of taxes we pay to live in Ridley Park, we should at least be allowed to make a right turn!
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Red Light (Guest)
RidleyParkOnline (Registered User)
The absolute fact is Ridley Park Borough and RP's Police department have their hands tied when it comes to timing and adjusting the timing of any light on a state highway. If the Borough knowingly readjusts the timing and there's a collision, then the liability is 100% on the Borough's shoulders for ignoring the times on the traffic light permit issued by PennDot.
Without writing a book on the subject, if the traffic light were go out of whack at Hinckson and Chester Pike, when it was restored, the light-timing would have to be reset to the original permit times in order to comply with PennDot's determination of the traffic pattern at "that intersection" on "their highway." The idea, as I'm told, is to keep traffic flowing on the state highways to conserve gasoline - well it's frustrating to the residents and the Ridley Park Police.
PennDot is altering the face of Rt 13 (Chester Pike), removing parking spots, and setting the timing on every traffic light along Chester Pike from Chester to Darby. I'd offer your complaints need to go higher, to the PA State level and maybe you'd be heard, since there is absolutely nothing RP or RPPD can do about your complaint other then listen and be sympathetic like the rest of us stuck along Chester Pike.
Lilblondie1974 (Guest)