Description
The left turn-only arrow from northbound New Hampshire Avenue onto eastbound Bonifant Road is not needed. It is a huge hindrance for anyone turning left onto Bonifant, because New Hampshire is lightly traveled in that area (except for rush hour). It is a waste of time and gas to wait at that light when there is *no* traffic coming the other way.
In addition, it forces traffic to U-turn farther north where Stonegate Dr. intersects New Hampshire -- a dangerous situation, with a limited sight line of cars coming south on New Hampshire at that particular point. Or cars turn left onto Stonegate and into the Stonegate neighborhood, putting even more traffic onto this neighborhood street.
I have no idea why this light was changed in the first place; it used to be you could turn left (after yielding to oncoming traffic, of course) during the entire green light cycle. No explanation was given to my knowledge, and I don't think there was ever a meeting held on the matter.
Please change that light back to what it was before!
3 Comments
Ron Griffin (Guest)
Martin (Guest)
I agree also. Outside of rush hour, I frequently sit at this red light while no traffic whatsoever is coming southbound.
It is a complete waste!!
I think a blinking red arrow would be a reasonable compromise.
Neil Makela (Guest)
I believe the fix is the continued dedicated green left turn arrow, followed by a solid green light when the rest of the traffic heading north on NH Ave has the green light, as is currently in place at Norwood Road and NH Ave.