Description
Vehicles traveling northbound on Quinnipiac used to have a left turn arrow onto Grand Avenue. When new lights went up weeks ago, the left turn arrow was removed. Northbound cars back up if a driver needs to turn left over the quinnipiac river bridge. Obviously, the traffic pattern will change again during the bridge closure, but can we fix this one now. It's clearly failing.
10 Comments
the plant lady (Registered User)
Q river Res (Registered User)
Fairhaven Dave (Registered User)
I think that light was a remnant from when we had a left turn only lane before the re-do. Now that Northbound is a single lane does it make sense to have a left turn arrow? Or should we instead request Northbound traffic have a longer green? That would be a far easier/faster fix as it would require a change in programming without hanging more lights.
LOVE the glowing street signs tho... so classy!
Resident (Guest)
Fairhaven Dave (Registered User)
I live on Q-Ave 500 block, which is part of Phase 1. I have suffered thru every bridge closing, traffic backup, construction inconvenience, and have been living on the front lines of this project for years now. I have a layer of filth on the front of my house. Impacting rollers have knocked huge cracks in my plaster. The gas company destroyed my foundation and driveway running the new lines. It's has been ROUGH.
And I'll put up with it for another 5 years rather than go back to the people who were dying from hitting the lump at the bottom of Oxford, criminals using the west side of the street as a staging zone for shooting up, flooding roads, sidewalks that made foot traffic impossible, and lack of curbs that had people driving onto pedestrian areas to pass on the right. We were patching up accident victims all summer and comforting their children while waiting for ambulances.
The city and state held dozens of community meetings to get feedback on the redo. Saying that they didn't consider those who live in the area is a tad off the mark in my opinion. I remember many of your neighbors requesting that the left turn only lane be removed as it caused more obstructions than it prevented.
The lights need to be reprogrammed. They have only been up a couple of weeks. They need to develop a timing that works for the new layout and traffic flow. Work out the bugs. Take a deep breath... we ARE going to survive this.
Terry (Guest)
Fairhaven Dave (Registered User)
A left turn signal would take time to install. DOT will likely tell you there is no longer a lane justifying a left turn only signal. A longer green requires a quick change in the light timing. Would that not accomplish the same thing? I got no beef with either idea, it seems the faster less expensive fix would be programming a longer green for Northbound traffic.
And I think the light is gone now... so they kinda broke it when they fixed it. Good point.
terry (Guest)
Acknowledged Department of Transportation, Traffic and Parking (Registered User)
Closed Manager of Operations, Process Improvement - Transportation, Traffic, & Parking (Verified Official)