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I work evening shift and I travel Route 8 North and get off the Route 34 exit, The intersection has a blinking light and is very dangerous to make a left hand turn towards downtown. It's hard to see oncoming traffic over barrier, and people fly through the intersection leaving a very dangerous. Let's get this fixed before there is a tragedy
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Art (Guest)
The location described for this problem is about a mile further west / north than the dot on the map.
On average, about how long does it take until the road is "clear" enough to safely turn left at midnight? What is the range of time where this seems to be a problem? Is it literally midnight?
Would getting off at Pershing Road or Constitution Avenue be safer and still get you to the destination?
Is it possible the "root cause" here is that at midnight, there is not enough traffic waiting Soundbound on Derby Ave to trigger a cycle of the light at Derby Ave and Main - in order to create a "gap" in traffic over the bridge to allow the route 8 traffic to exit safely?
I generally don't like the barriers dividing Route 8 being so high they block the oncoming headlights, but all the tanker trucks using Route 34 probably make that prudent.
Has anyone ever proposed building a gasoline pipeline along the railroad right of way up to Danbury and/or Waterbury? That would solve a whole lot of traffic problems in this area. Or building a new Route 34 following the railroad ROW along the South side of the Housatonic river up to the Steveson Dam?.... The current rail traffic on that line sure isn't contributing anying to the community. Maybe the state DOT would like to buy up the empty "redevelopment" project land in Derby for that purpose....
Art (Guest)
amy (Guest)
Darek (Guest)
Art (Guest)
Even more annoying is a functioning light overnight depending on sensors to activate the signal and the sensor fails to detect the vehicle or is set to require two vehicles to turn the light and nobody else comes for minutes.
The reason for my first question was to point out that the rationale for turning off signals is it reduces the average dwell time. I tend to assume the state DOT knows what they're doing until proven otherwise.
The question about the actual time was because sometimes traffic signals are not adusted for Daylight Saving Time and perhaps the lights went to blinking at the wrong time (or maybe this is an infrequent problem due to an equipment problem)
I can try to lead people to the Socratic method, but I can't make them visit their opthamologist.
amy (Guest)
Darek (Guest)
Sorry Amy, I also work in an industry where I tend to get on the road late at night, and waiting at long light delays for no one to pass as I try to get home after a long day is a pet peeve.
I believe that a sensor activated light in that situation might help, but I'm not sure that intersection is equipped with one.