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Again with the lights at Edwards and Prospect. The light for Edwards was again stalled when I tried to go through it at 10am this morning. After 5 minutes I U-turned on Edwards to go back to Whitney, with traffic backed up to St Ronan St. It was apparently again stalled at 11am, again with traffic backed up almost to St Ronan St, when I came past after crossing from Hillside place.
I will not allow this report to be closed until the city can give a definite reason for the problem and that it has been fixed.
16 Comments
Peter Morgan (Registered User)
TT&P Workflow Inegration (Verified Official)
Acknowledged TT&P Workflow Inegration (Verified Official)
Closed TT&P Workflow Inegration (Verified Official)
Reopened Peter Morgan (Registered User)
NHPD and especially NHFD because of the Whitney Ave fire station at the bottom of Edwards can't be happy if they come up that hill to get to an incident on the other side of Prospect in a hurry, because the road is far too narrow for them to get past a long queue of stationary traffic safely at speed.
Acknowledged Manager of Operations, Process Improvement - Transportation, Traffic, & Parking (Verified Official)
Peter Morgan (Registered User)
steve21 (Registered User)
Manager of Operations, Process Improvement - Transportation, Traffic, & Parking (Verified Official)
Peter Morgan (Registered User)
My main concern is that, as I say above, given that this problem definitely happened but couldn't be investigated because it was intermittent, surely there should be a way to systematically investigate, for a new traffic light, what the exact history has been for say the last few days. If they've found a way to monitor this traffic light fairly continuously and there's been no problem for a few weeks, say, then I'm happy to see this issue closed.
Thanks for paying attention! Sorry not to be more helpful.
Tommy (Registered User)
Peter Morgan (Registered User)
Apparently the problem can be of different durations. It seems possible, but only on the basis of this one observation, that the problem may be associated with precisely which pedestrian walk requests are placed and their timings.
More anecdotal evidence isn't what you need to resolve this, but its urgency shouldn't be in doubt.
Tommy (Registered User)
Hi Peter,
You have a very good point and I've noticed quite a few tickets submitted via this platform claiming similar time lag issues with traffic signals at other intersections. This issue is a technical one which should easily be resolved by the IT pros in the TT&P department. While it was very admirable of someone employed with TT&P to go to the intersection and stand there for 45 minutes and watch the traffic signal intervals, we can do better than that. Let's think smarter, not harder.
Douglas Hausladen is the Director of our Transportation, Traffic and Parking Department. I have confidence he already has a plan to authenticate the claims of excessive time lags and is doing what has to be done to resolve this. Let's give him a little more time to finish working on it.
Currently, it appears the position of "Signal Superintendent" at TT&P remains vacant, but there must be someone covering those duties until someone is hired.
It would really would be great if someone at TT&P would post a comment on what else is being done to resolve this... or how statistical analysis of vehicular and pedestrian traffic dictate that nothing needs to be changed.
steve21 (Registered User)
Peter Morgan (Registered User)
If they haven't diagnosed any problem and have made no changes, then I don't believe it, TBH. The last time I saw the problem was not at rush hour at all.
OTOH, if they are sure that the backups are solely because of traffic volume towards Science Park (which I can well believe has increased), then I guess they could think about setting the schedule to give slightly more priority to Edwards in the morning rush hours (though that suggestion assumes that they have hour-by-hour fine grained control, and of course the intersection is not easy to code for given its off-kilter geometry).
Closed Doug Hausladen (Registered User)