Description
The traffic light timing for queen creek road (east and westbound) traffic is way to short on weekdays. This morning, I was only 4 cars back and barely made it through the intersection, heading west, before the signal changed from green to red. Please increase the time for queen creek road traffic to move through the intersection to at least 30-45 seconds and reduce Val Vista's time to match, thank you.
also asked...
Q. What direction were you traveling?
A. Westbound
A. Westbound
Q. What day of the week did you notice the issue?
A. Thursday
A. Thursday
Q. Date you noticed the issue:
A. 07/21/2022
A. 07/21/2022
Q. Time of day you noticed the issue:
A. 5:40am
A. 5:40am
6 Comments
Gilbert 311 (Verified Official)
Acknowledged Engineering - Mike 🚦 (Verified Official)
Jeff B. (Registered User)
Engineering - Mike 🚦 (Verified Official)
NS is the coordinated phase so they will likely never be the same all extra time goes back to coordinated phase. EW is set to min recall so it will always serve at least the min time (10 sec green) if there are cars present it serves them and adds time as vehicles pass through the detection area up to the maximum split for the movement or time programmed, all unused time goes to NS. If there are vehicles approaching the intersection EW but not yet in the detection area and the minimum time has been served (10 sec) it will Gap out (end) and the vehicles waiting will need to wait until the next window in the cycle opens. EW has more time available in the AM plan (48+) than NS (32+) but due to NS being coordinated the unused time from EW goes to NS. I know this can be confusing but it sound like you have a lot of gaps in traffic that are allowing the signal to switch to NS. I did make a change today to the amount of time it extends when a vehicle passes though the detection area that will help. I will try and watch again soon. I did not see any back ups last time but it was a bit later in the morning and the time was extending as programmed if people were in the detection area closer to the signal, it may be more of a problem earlier but the change I made today should help. ....Mike
Jeff B. (Registered User)
Closed Engineering - Mike 🚦 (Verified Official)