This is a DANGEROUS intersection with an accident waiting to happen !!!!!
If a driver on south Maple TRYING to turn left onto Michigan Ave cars go through the red light preventing left turn. We waited three red lights today as the front car and northbound drivers zoomed straight through a red light and we barely missed turning into his truck!
Then on the next opportunity a bicyclist coming North was in the right hand turn lane on Old Creek and ran straight through and we could have hit him as he went straight on red light from the right turn lane! Look out Saline! A tragedy is WAITING to happen .

Since my original post on this issue, they have added a right turn light for going east onto US12 while westbound traffic on US12 is still moving. But once the westbound US12 light turns red, the north bound traffic coming off Old Creek still blocks any southbound traffic until it's clear and this usually allows for one or two vehicles to turn left.

I still think the best solution is a 3 way red light stop so each group of traffic can exhaust thru the intersection. And the northbound light at US12 need to be in sync with the light at Harris and Old Creek. I have found a workaround but it's still a pain.

There also needs to be better signage for Southbound Maple traffic so they know NB traffic lanes are changed. The old traffic flow that everyone was used to, had right lane straight or right turn. Now, left lane is straight or left turn only. I, and others, have nearly been hit by SB Maple traffic turning left in from of us because they don't expect that lane to go straight.

I know exactly what you mean - maybe the city will wake up if someone gets injured - or worse - and files a lawsuit.

Even a 3rd grader would know that the only solution, with the additional traffic coming from Henry and up to US12 from Old Creek, would be to have 3 way stoplights at that intersection, so ALL traffic could flow thru safely.

I'll let it run for another month, hopefully there won't be any accidents because of the odd changes.

After not having any resolution to the problem, I did leave a message for Saline City Manager, Todd Campbell about the problems at this intersection. To his credit, he quickly forwarded my info to a man who was facilitation this whole project with MDOT. He was very nice and shared concerns, but said there was little they could do with traffic lights that wouldn't result in major traffic backups. All of this will be a moot point soon, because the entire intersection will be closed off soon for work and the whole traffic shift will change because of the east-west Mich Ave traffic necessary shift for construction on the North side of Mi Ave.

I didn't expect anything so I wasn't disappointed.

Closed.