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should be able to turn on green not just green arrow

Absolutely agree, most times there is no oncoming traffic, but you are not allowed to make turn. Please take out the green arrow or shorten the wait time !!

The stretch of road on 11th Street between U.S. 20 and Blackhawk Road is a busy road with lots of semi truck traffic. On either side of 11th Street are frontage roads to businesses.
Before the early 2000s, that stretch of 11th Street was the location of several fatalities and numerous other accidents.
Scott Kullerstrand, an Illinois Department of Transportation design and planning engineer, said the cluster of stop lights at Samuelson and 11th Street and Blackhawk Road and 11th Street - particularly the center median traffic lights - are there for safety.
"It was a designer's decision to make them (left-hand turns off 11th Street) protected, meaning you can only turn left on the display of the green arrow," he said.
Between March 1996 and October 1999, six people were killed in three different fatal accidents in the 3900 block of 11th Street. Four of those deaths occurred on Oct. 9, 1999, when a family of four visiting Rockford for a family reunion were killed when their van was struck broadside by a southbound car on 11th Street.
It was after this accident when the traffic light upgrades were made.

I agree these lights pose a much more risk than if they were less controlling. I live in this area and have seen multiple vehicles speed up to speeds of 60 mph or more to try and squeeze past these lights.

These lights are a hazard to people and the planet. School buses are required to shut off their engine if idling more than 30 seconds, what about all of the toxic fumes generated from these two intersections.

The frontage roads are seeing much more traffic due to people avoiding these intersections. People walk and ride bicycles down these roads and are at a much greater risk due to the increase in traffic, I recall that 2 people, on the frontage road, were hit and killed by cars from normal traffic long before these hazardous lights were installed.

There is absolutely no need for the right and left turn signals, as visibility of the on-comming traffic, or lack of traffic is well over a quarter of a mile.

I do not believe Chris Greens explanation of the reason for these lights. If you remember Doug Scott had a vision and he called it an international industrial park that was supposed to be built in that area. I believe that in anticipation of this pipe dream that the whole area was redesigned and these hazardous over controlling lights were installed. I do no doubt that they used safety as the scapegoat to push them through.

these lights are also a hazard to any pedestrian or cyclist wishing to cross 11th st as it is only possible to get half way across before they are changing.

I absolutely agree. These lights are the biggest joke in rockford. I watch people blow through them all the time because they are left sitting there for 20 minutes with no traffic and the lights don't change. I've lived here my entire life. I agree with the guy who talked about Scott's pipe dream. The lights pose a way bigger hazard than the original intersection ever did. And there are still accidents here all the time. I think the money could have been way better used to fill the 10000 potholes and missing road way across the south east side. Our city is getting so bad and embarrassing. Someone should just hang a sign on the edge of town that says CLOSED. What are they doing with my astronomical taxes anyway? Not fixing roads, that's for sure.