Comments on: Are Highway 305 traffic detectors working? http://pugetsoundblogs.com/roadwarrior/2008/12/31/are-highway-305-traffic-detectors-working/ Travis Baker blogs about the problems and idiosyncrasies of Kitsap highways and byways. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:36:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Sharon O'Hara http://pugetsoundblogs.com/roadwarrior/2008/12/31/are-highway-305-traffic-detectors-working/comment-page-1/#comment-940 Sharon O'Hara Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:08:57 +0000 http://pugetsoundblogs.com/roadwarrior/2008/12/31/are-highway-305-traffic-detectors-working/#comment-940 Thank you Poulsbo ladies for speaking up! I agree with your comments. Provost/Newberry Hill needs such a devise too. Sharon O'Hara Thank you Poulsbo ladies for speaking up!
I agree with your comments.
Provost/Newberry Hill needs such a devise too.
Sharon O’Hara

]]> By: Monica Berninghaus http://pugetsoundblogs.com/roadwarrior/2008/12/31/are-highway-305-traffic-detectors-working/comment-page-1/#comment-937 Monica Berninghaus Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:34:36 +0000 http://pugetsoundblogs.com/roadwarrior/2008/12/31/are-highway-305-traffic-detectors-working/#comment-937 I totally agree with these comments - in today's day and age there are sensors that can regulate the lights - not a 2 minute sit-and- wait-for-the-light-to-turn-green! I drop my kids off at school around 645AM and many times we just sit and sit and sit and wait to make a LEFT turn on Lincoln Street. Therefore REGARDLESS of the time of day - if there are NO cars coming on 305 in Poulsbo and people waiting to turn LEFT on ANY side street - the sensors would "SENSE" this and thus make the light turn green! It is assinine to have people just sitting there! Let's get with the "MODERN ENGINEERING" and have traffic flowly smoothly from ALL directions! The left turn on Ridgetop Blvd has one of these sensors and it works great! I totally agree with these comments – in today’s day and age there are sensors that can regulate the lights – not a 2 minute sit-and- wait-for-the-light-to-turn-green! I drop my kids off at school around 645AM and many times we just sit and sit and sit and wait to make a LEFT turn on Lincoln Street.

Therefore REGARDLESS of the time of day – if there are NO cars coming on 305 in Poulsbo and people waiting to turn LEFT on ANY side street – the sensors would “SENSE” this and thus make the light turn green! It is assinine to have people just sitting there! Let’s get with the “MODERN ENGINEERING” and have traffic flowly smoothly from ALL directions!

The left turn on Ridgetop Blvd has one of these sensors and it works great!

]]> By: Nancy Christensen http://pugetsoundblogs.com/roadwarrior/2008/12/31/are-highway-305-traffic-detectors-working/comment-page-1/#comment-935 Nancy Christensen Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:17:22 +0000 http://pugetsoundblogs.com/roadwarrior/2008/12/31/are-highway-305-traffic-detectors-working/#comment-935 I have been caught sitting at the horrible traffic lights delays on Poulsbo Highway 305, For a couple of years it was construction, then it was months of DOT saying they will adjust the lights. Now it is just stupidity. In this day of technological advances, why can't traffic lights be set for sporatic high ferry traffic that defaults that reads spacing, then resets to flow control in high traffic times. It doesn't make sense. We are busy people that do not need to spend a larger portion of our life sitting at a vacant highway. I am on the road a lot for business and it really aggravates me. I have been caught sitting at the horrible traffic lights delays on Poulsbo Highway 305, For a couple of years it was construction, then it was months of DOT saying they will adjust the lights. Now it is just stupidity. In this day of technological advances, why can’t traffic lights be set for sporatic high ferry traffic that defaults that reads spacing, then resets to flow control in high traffic times. It doesn’t make sense. We are busy people that do not need to spend a larger portion of our life sitting at a vacant highway. I am on the road a lot for business and it really aggravates me.

]]> By: Gary Reed http://pugetsoundblogs.com/roadwarrior/2008/12/31/are-highway-305-traffic-detectors-working/comment-page-1/#comment-874 Gary Reed Thu, 01 Jan 2009 20:10:48 +0000 http://pugetsoundblogs.com/roadwarrior/2008/12/31/are-highway-305-traffic-detectors-working/#comment-874 What about the timing of Highway 303 signals? Those are set to stop traffic at each light. Why is that? What about the timing of Highway 303 signals? Those are set to stop traffic at each light. Why is that?

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