Re: New High-Tech Traffic Lights

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Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 00:00

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"Thomas Wilk" <sponge1000@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

>This brings up  all my pet peeves about trip plates.  There are a ton
>of drivers out there that will not pull up over the plate to actuate
>it.  Then they wonder why they didn't get the green or the turn arrow.
>Pisses off many that are behind these morons.

I noticed that the traffic engineers are getting a bit sneaky in Phoenix. At at
least one intersection, there is a turn lane with a traffic loop at the stop
line and another (newer) one bout 3 car lengths back. If you are the only
vehicle and pull over the traditional loop at the stop line you never get a
green arrow. They expect that you'll wait the 2-3 minutes for oncoming traffic
to clear, then turn through the next yellow. If there are 2-3 vehicles waiting(
ie, the second loop is covered), they give a protected (green) arrow.

If they had been smart, they would have checked both loops, but they only check
the rearward one. So the drivers that want an arrow at that intersection stop
well short of the stop line...

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Subject: Re: New High-Tech Traffic Lights
Date: 1999/09/29
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