Description
I was waiting at the traffic signal to exit the Westville Public Parking lot Sunday 5/13/2012 at approximately 1:00p.m. and my light never turned green. I waited through 4 cycles of the lights for E/W bound Whalley, the walk light for crossing Phillips and the green for Phillips traffic but my light never turned green. I finally made my left with my light red and the Whalley traffic stopped. Had a near-miss with traffic turning right onto Whalley from Blake.
Please check out this signal.
5 Comments
Chris Heitmann
Same thing happened to me, Saturday evening. Thanks for reporting, Kevin.
TT&P, please acknowledge and repair.
SLP
Have had the same problem from the lot and coming down the hill from Philip street opposite as well. Sometimes you need to move your car a bit so the sensor "sees" you--but many of those sensors don't seem well angled.
BJG
Sensors? I thought traffic lights had an uninterrupted cycle, except for WALK signals. This happened to me on Harrison and Fountain one day - sat through the cycle 4 times. What happens when the violation cameras are installed? How are we going to prove that we didn't pass the light without good cause? The city is going to be inundated with unhappy drivers, and the courts are going to be flooded with ticket contesting cases.
Acknowledged Department of Transportation, Traffic and Parking
Thanks for the post. The Signal Division will be notifed.
SLP
Many intersections in Westville have a new type of sensor system to help figure out when a red light should turn green--look up and you will see a white tube mounted up high and aimed toward where the first car would wait at a red light. This is NOT a red light violation camera. Instead, it replaces the pressure-sensitive plates that used to be in the road at where the first car would wait at a red light (you can see those, too: look like metal wires embedded in the asphalt).