How do you get the mva to assess traffic light timing on 235 during the am n pm traffic? And fix it!
What do you want them to do? The problem is that each and every driver wants the traffic lights to be timed based on their own routine. That's not gonna happen.
While that's true, I don't think it's that in this case. Something changed a couple weeks ago. Can't say much about the AM, but traffic is backed up past 2272 (probably farther but that's where I leave from) on the base every day now after 4. 15-20 minutes just to get from 2272 to the light to exit the base. I've worked on base for quite a while and it has never been like this consistently. I suspect it's the San Souci light that is the issue based on my observations, but I am not sure. Either that or literally nobody is on travel, which I guess is a possibility too.
I think it's the light at Chancellors Run that has changed,IMO..Yesterday took me 45 minutes to get from Airport View to Chancellors..after the light there wasn't any traffic. Noticed last week that traffic thinned out after Chancellors
they just did a reaccesssment and changed the timing...
/snipthey are simply to close together.... I've seen that light change stopping traffic and then the when it goes green, the light at Town Creek goes red.
It's next to impossible to time the lights. Think about it. You want the lights to flow when you head south. What happens to the lights going north? All screwed up. So, you try to follow the major flow during rush times, like in the morning. When do you switch to follow the rush in the evening? As soon as AM rush is over? Just before the PM rush? It will ALWAYS be wrong for someone at sometime.
It also takes a few cycles to sync them back up when someone hits the crosswalk button somewhere along the way too..
Lets remember that you have government workers behind these operations, and they aren't smart
The switch to afternoon rush timing is about 1500 I think. Which is why when the base does a 0:59 early dismissal during a weekday (which means everyone leaves before 1500) the traffic is really hosed because the Rt 4/235 light is too short north & south bound until it switches to PM rush hour timing.
It also takes a few cycles to sync them back up when someone hits the crosswalk button somewhere along the way too..When that happens, (at least at Old Rolling Road where I've observed it) the outbound traffic at ORR gets a ~30 second green to allow the ped to get across the street, when that is normally a 7 second green for ORR & 7 second green for Shady Mile out.. Then, the southbound 235 left turn signal switches to a 3 second green light for several cycles regardless of the number of cars running thru the sensors/cameras, to allow a longer north bound green until it syncs back up with the other lights.