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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 ….
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