Description
The left turn advanced light from 116 ave eastbound to turn north on Lakeland Dr. continues to either be erratically programmed or malfunctioning. When it does not work between 8:15 and 9:15 am or 2:45 and 4:00 pm only two cars per light rotation can turn left. Traffic rapidly stacks up, sometimes even west of 96 street. Either make the left turn advance reliably useless (it NEVER works so you on't count on it), so that northbound traffic @ 96 street goes west on 116 ave and the north on Crystal Ridge Dr. or reliably useful (it works during busy periods of east-west traffic during school zone hours) so that traffic can go north on Lakeland without waiting inordinate numbers of light changes or U-turning in the Crystal Park School parking lot. The intermittency of the problem -- which has occurred for months, on and off -- is maddening.
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11 Comments
City of Grande Prairie (Registered User)
Display Name Blocked (98872) (Registered User)
Closed Display Name Blocked (23184) (Registered User)
Joanne (Guest)
susie63 (Registered User)
Today at 3:00 PM there were 11 vehicles queued up for a left advance that wasn't forthcoming. There's no way that they were all too far west to set off the equipment, and with 11 of them, it should have activated. This morning at 8:35 it wasn't working either. I haven't seen it work once in the critical timeframes in the past week. Have the signal technicians drive a vehicle through it and set off the advance signal during the critical time period--and have them succeed multiple times--then I'll believe that it's all driver-and-snow error. Not til then, though.
Reopened susie63 (Registered User)
It wasn't functioning properly at 8:55 AM this morning with the crosswalk lines clearly visible or this afternoon at 3:24 when I got trapped in the crosswalk with another vehicle directly behind me. It is not a driver issue. Either that light has been reprogrammed NOT to work at the most critical time of day, or the sensor for eastbound-turning-northbound traffic is not working. Please fix it. Only two cars per light change can make that turn when the left advance doesn't function.
susie63 (Registered User)
NFG
susie63 (Registered User)
NFG
Closed Display Name Blocked (23184) (Registered User)
I will have them take another look at this location.
susie63 (Registered User)
8:24 AM
3:15 PM
3:25 PM
all NFG
susie63 (Registered User)
Hopefully, this time when you send out technicians, they go out between 8:15 AM and 9:00 AM and 2:30 PM and 4:00 PM continuously and they
Count the number of times the lights cycle.
Count the number of times a vehicle is in the left-hand turn lane before the light turns green, and
Count the number of times the advance light actually functions
and then they report some numbers to you.
Because since I opened this ticket, I have only seen it function once, and that WASN'T during the critical period.
Then they can experiment and actually drive through the intersection and see what magic sauce it takes to get that light to function--and when that sauce isn't forthcoming, you can then schedule to have that light repaired/reprogrammed as necessary.