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why1200 t1_j8l24ia wrote

drive down key highway and MLK and do a self driven study. Or hey listen to your city-zens for once. good Grief … a study?!

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temptags t1_j8mnykg wrote

Its probably best to perform a study to assess the effects of retiming signals on congestion, queuing, impacts to side streets, etc., before arriving at some feasible and viable options to solve the issue and best optimize signal timing for existing and future demands. My question is the price tag. Perhaps the cost is legit, considering the labor it takes to perform a timing analysis at one intersection, multiplied by hundreds, as well as all of the other data collection and analysis that's probably needed. I wish we could see the scope of the study that justifies the cost.

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dwolfe127 t1_j8n3p5v wrote

Key is the absolute worst. The light timing makes zero sense any time of day.

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gothaggis t1_j8ni7en wrote

I believe DOT said the timings on MLK are screwed up - the devices aren't keeping time correctly or something and have completed screwed up traffic there for weeks, even after being reset.

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why1200 t1_j8nju46 wrote

Yes they have said that for some time. That's the issue. And they can add KEY highway to that as that has been a mess for a very long time.

Sunday there was ZERO foot/ped traffic yet the light timings were off. It took 23 minutes to drive 5 miles thru city....2 which were Hull to Light to Pratt No traffic.

It took me 21 minutes to get to Ellicott City Trader Joes in medium traffic (16 miles). Absolutely ridiculous. our infrastructure is just getting worse and we are becoming less of a charm city and more Harm city in more ways than crime.

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