Tim Weaver said:
redd38 said:
91_Aggie said:
There was a video posted in the past that showed computer simulations of all types of intersections and how many cars per minute would move through them. This was one of the most efficient.
It is pretty darned hilarious to watch some of you who look at something you haven't seen before and because it is different you immediate become traffic flow experts and condemn it. Likely most of you would have called electricity the work of Satan back in the early 1900s.
It's even more darned hilarious to see some people just accept that a chosen solution is necessarily the best solution.
Oh, you saw a video on YouTube? I didn't realize you were an expert, my bad.
Hahahahaha.
Right on. I don't pretend to know much about traffic engineering, but I do know that in Waco you can cruise down the main streets there at the speed limit and never get stopped by a light. They are timed properly and have been for decades. Where can you drive in BCS and not get stopped by a light?
So why is it that places with properly timed lights don't have the congestion problems we do? Why are we trying to solve this congestion by adding more lights at more complicated intersections? Why do we feel the need to spend millions of dollars on something that isn't really a problem?
Yes the old intersection was backed up during game days, but thats due to the volume of traffic, not the style of intersection....
Have you compared the traffic volume data on the arterials you're comparing in B/CS and Waco? There might just be such a heavy volume here that there is no good signal timing. I'd be careful making generalizations about traffic signal timing unless you have specific and comparable data or know someone who times the signals.
We did a travel time study in college about 10 years ago from Ireland and University to University and Hwy6 where we drove back and forth several times between 4:00 and 6:00 PM. Those signals are definitely coordinated because pretty much every group and every trial showed that driving out of town was faster. I suspect the signals are timed properly, but the volume is crazy high. I have no data other than our speed study to back up my suspicions, though.
One issue I know we have here is the lack of an alternate N/S arterial to Texas. E/W is tough also, but N/S seems worse.