Street lights shutting off on green light
December 9th, 2008 by travis bakerThe in basket: Jenny Burke of Silverdale reported something very odd about the intersection of Silverdale Way and Randall Way at the north end of Silverdale.
Three times in a couple of months, she was stopped at a red light heading north on Silverdale Way at night. When the light changed to green, all the street lights at the intersection went out, she said.
I asked if she looked back after proceeding to see if they had come back on, but she hadn’t.
I was stumped by how such a thing could happen.
The out basket: Jeff Shea, traffic engineer for Kitsap County Public Works, said the most likely explanation is that headlights of cars starting up somehow caused the street light controller to think it was daylight.
“We’ve noted that the photo cell that turns the street lights on at night is positioned in a manner that traffic could impact it.,” he said. “We will be changing the position of the cell in the near future to preclude this from happening.”
Tags: Randall Way, silverdale, street lights, traffic signal
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