05-11-2016, 08:40 AM
(05-10-2016, 04:20 PM)Canard Wrote: The traffic bottleneck there is now because the current configuration has the Westbound left lane (of two lanes) turning mandatory South on Charles (left turn only, not straight through and left). So the number of lanes goes from 2, to 1, and back to 2 lanes on Benton, and causes a massive clog that backs up through King, and eventually to Duke, because the lights are so close together.
This will likely go away when the 2>1 point moves further back down Frederick at Duke - the next light is way up at Centre in the Square.
Speaking of bottlenecks, and I'm not even sure if that would help with traffic flow because of the nearby signals at Charles and Duke, but I've wondered why the King/Victoria lights haven't just been switched to a pedestrian activated only cycle since you can't go south or north on King at the moment. It just seems really odd to see cars queued up going east/west waiting for exactly nothing to happen north/south (with the exception of pedestrians).
Everyone move to the back of the bus and we all get home faster.