City Says It Will Change New Timed Traffic Signals to Trip-Signals in the Spring
Right now, the North Main Street traffic signals are timed, causing some driving frustrations
If you've a little peeved about the timed traffic signals along North Main Street, just remember: they won't be that way for long. One North Canton resident blogged about the inconvenience of the new timed signals this week — specifically the signal at North Main Street and Wilbur Drive — saying, "I travel that area frequently and I never could understand the need for this signal originally, and it has now been compounded by placing it on timed activation." City Administrator Mike Grimes said the timed activation will change to a tripped-activation in the spring. The city had turned the four-lane road into five lanes through the North Main Street Reconstruction Project, and workers didn't get around to changing the traffic signals before …
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Denise Lee
12:07 pm on Wednesday, January 16, 2013
So, if I understand this correctly, all of the side streets leading to Main Street will be on tripped activation--which sounds good until you think it through and realize again that the NEEDLESS "no turn on red" signs will trip things up (nice pun). Everytime someone wants to turn right off a side street and onto Main St, the lights on Main will turn red causing more traffic bottlenecks. The real… more ›