New Traffic Lights

In March we had lamented how the neighborhood had been greatly inconvenienced by an intersection that had been torn up since the beginning of the year.

This week the work was completed, and the new traffic lights were turned on. It did take nearly six months (cue jokes about public works projects), but I must admit that the new lights are big, bright and technologically advanced.

Last year we only had a stop sign; now three stop lights face each direction, and there are two left turn lights on the main boulevard. Based on a couple days of observations, the intersection feels safer especially for pedestrians, and driving speed doesn't seem to have been sacrificed.

Traffic patterns have already changed. For some routes it's advantageous to avoid the lights, for others efficiency dictates that one should seek out the intersection.

All in all, thumbs up.