I was in the left turn lane for fifteen minutes waiting for the green arrow. When it came on two cars could turn. Traffic was backed up for half a mile extending into a lane of traffic. It was not this way yesterday. Needless to say impatient drivers turned on the red arrow and were narrowly missed by oncoming traffic.

Sorry about that

Try it now

LOL. I think I will wait until tomorrow when I have to visit the Post Office again. Our local news can send a reporter out to stand in the highway and talk to pissed off drivers. It would probably be the lead story.

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Yeah that looks like the guy leaving the scene!

Sounds like an actuated signal and the sensor on the turn lane went out. It has a minimum green interval that gets extended if it detects traffic, up to a maximum green interval. If the sensor goes out, it doesn't detect traffic and reverts to the minimum interval.

Or, some city maintenance worker just decided to screw with people for a day...

DOT guy is thinking about getting a new car.

Screws with the light, hangs out nearby, and thinks...

I don't want a car with that start/stop crap. Lets see what to avoid.

'Tereree'

(scratches name of car off of his list)

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
LOL. I think I will wait until tomorrow when I have to visit the Post Office again. Our local news can send a reporter out to stand in the highway and talk to pissed off drivers. It would probably be the lead story.

Are you sure that you don't want to call the local gov't and get passed from person to person who says "it's not my job?" Nobody will know whose job it is but they'll be adamant it isn't theirs. You could be in for a real good time pairing that with a post office visit.

Usually Engineering and Works would handle something like that.

But it does sound like a sensor failure.

Pretty sure it won't happen again .
Edwin was fired after this fiasco

I usually treat a malfunctioning stoplight like a stop sign after a long enough period of time, clearly something is wrong. You actually waited for 15 minutes? That’s insane.

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:

I was in the left turn lane for fifteen minutes

If I've told you once, I've told you fifteen million times, don't exaggerate!

DOT needs to hire a traffic engineer that has a drivers liscense.

3 traffic lights in under a quarter mile, none in sync, includes interstate on and off ramps, and an Overpass, so no shoulder to use.

If your light malfunctions for more than 4 hours, see a City Engineer...

There is a street in Moline that has 11 stop lights in a 30 m.p.h. zone

The other day we hit all greens , the whole way doing
37 m.p.h.

While riding a motorcycle in Sacramento, CA, I was at an intersection of a freeway off-ramp and surface street and waited - and waited, and waited - probably 15 minutes for the red light I was stopped at to change. A cop stopped and waved me through. Apparently there was an embedded magnetic loop sensor controlling the light that my bike (much lower mass than a car, and much of that aluminum) would not activate. This was an area on the outskirts of the city, in the middle of the day in the middle of the week, and traffic was very light, not to mention 40 years ago.