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Category: News
We hopped Mr. Bunny is soon re-united with his best friend.
Back on July 9, I posted a photo of a hole in Sargeant Street. It has now been filled with asphalt. Want to take bets on how long it is before the hole reappears?
These photos highlight why the two traffic lights get out of sync – it’s the pedestrian crossing signals. The light at Farmington is green, while the light at Asylum is red – and over on the right side of the intersection, the pedestrian crossing has seven seconds to go.
The solution, it seems to me, is to make the pedestrian crossing longer so that a pedestrian can get through the entire Trident in one cycle. When a pedestrian requests a crossing, they do so only for one street, be it Farmington or Asylum. They then have to request a crossing again at the next street. This throws the traffic lights out of sync, and it takes several cycles with no pedestrians for the traffic lights to come back into sync.
A simple solution, right? But it seems that our city would rather spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on consultants to come up with a much more complicated and convoluted traffic pattern ….
I’m not really sure if this counts, but it is a regular occurrence, as trucks come down through the Trident en route to Interstate 84.
The problem, of course, is that the lights on both sides of the Trident are out of sync, but it should also be noted that, despite the signs, the prohibition against blocking the box is never enforced.
Not to be a downer or anything, but the new traffic pattern eliminated one parking space in front of 207 Garden Street. That matters because those parking spaces also serve as a loading zone for Kent Pizza, and the truck here today had less room for that. A big deal? Not probably, but a different driver could see the new pattern differently than this one did.
