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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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