Traffic
light in Cadè, a benefit or not?
The lights of contention. Operating from a
few days, but already the target of criticism. We are on the
Via Emilia, Cadè. Here last week came on four new traffic
lights ( two in each direction ): the first two to control the
intersection at the elementary school, the other in front of
the church just 40 meters ahead, for regular pedestrian crossing
( with no intersection side streets ). Therefore, two traffic
lights in a patch of road. Result? Interminable serpents of
cars and trucks in the center of Cadè. A cross
for motorists in transit, forced to extend significantly
the travel times of the already busy main road, certainly not
a panacea for the local residents, forced to breathe in your
home, the exhaust from dozens of vehicles stacking. Thus, a
situation that many define as unacceptable, while the traffic
light in front of the church stop vehicles only at the request
of pedestrians, what governs the intersection has both a normal
timer ( periodic alternating red-green ) is a device to request
pedestrian . Ends so that when the rotation of the timer gives
the green light, the pedestrians are required to return the
red light. This leads to a stop too long in cars and trucks.
"Details" that could not escape those who live in
the area and new traffic lights being discussed in front of
the bar, rush hour, just when the traffic goes crazy and calls
pedestrian increased dramatically. "These traffic lights
- notes E. P. - are working just a few days,
but a first impression of the effects we have already. The queues
of vehicles are chronic because the two traffic lights, which
are just a few meters of each other, can not be synchronized.
If one is green, the other 40 meters ahead is red. Serve the
sensors can detect the presence of vehicles coming out of the
side streets, so as to trigger the red on the Via Emilia, only
when really necessary. It was better before, without those traffic
lights the traffic was much smoother. I would have done one
round. " Echoes T. P.: "I think -
he says - the second traffic light, one dedicated exclusively
pedestrian crossing, is useless, since it is only a pawn to
block everything. This morning ( yesterday ed ) there were even
two incidents. " What happened? "The same thing in
both cases, ie a machine in the direction of Parma, stopped
at the red at the request of a pedestrian in front of the church,
another car was buffered by exceeding light green with just
40 meters before the intersection. And we're still at the beginning.
If you do not find a solution, there may be other collisions
of this type. " E G. B., passing motorists,
cut short: "I work at Parma and follow this road every
day. The queues are really long and unbearable. I will not go
into the merits of solutions, but certainly we should somehow
lengthen the green on the Via Emilia. So you can not go on,
because these lights seem to work without an adequate criterion.
FRANCESCO PIZZIGALLO
Article
copied from "Carlinoreggio.it" Tuesday 10/05/2010
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