Yesterday's evening (about 5 pm) traffic was backed up from Denton Tap westward all the way to Whispering Hills. Funny how congested traffic gets when the City staff and Council defer, for over eleven years, the voter's mandate to improve said roadway. One lane in each direction instead of two, and no turning lane... It's a wonder that traffic isn't even more tightly constrained. Thankfully I am not aware of any auto-pedestrian accidents along this roadway for three or so weeks now.
It also baffles me as to why the protected turn onto Denton Tap (northbound, from eastbound Sandy Lake Road) at that time of day only allows about four cars to pass before the signal goes from a protected arrow to green (and thus yielding to oncoming traffic). It can easily take four cycles of traffic light rotation before one can make it through the intersection. Not so in any other direction...
I only wish I had taken photos of the signs the City erected on Sandy Lake years ago that proclaimed that construction would be undertaken on the subject stretch of road sometime between 2003 and 2005. Maybe 2013 and 2015...
It also baffles me as to why the protected turn onto Denton Tap (northbound, from eastbound Sandy Lake Road) at that time of day only allows about four cars to pass before the signal goes from a protected arrow to green (and thus yielding to oncoming traffic). It can easily take four cycles of traffic light rotation before one can make it through the intersection. Not so in any other direction...
I only wish I had taken photos of the signs the City erected on Sandy Lake years ago that proclaimed that construction would be undertaken on the subject stretch of road sometime between 2003 and 2005. Maybe 2013 and 2015...
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