Many traffic signals today won’t turn green unless loops in the pavement or video cameras detect a car sitting at the light. I’ve noticed that this detection often fails for bicycles, however. If there is a bicycle lane, there may not be a separate detection zone or loop to pick up a bicycle in the [...]
Posts under ‘Traffic Lights’
Update: The 311 Experiment
We have a little bit of good news to report; the pedestrian crosswalk signals at the South Miami Avenue and SE 13th Avenue intersection are working again after nearly a week since they stopped working.
Nevertheless things appeared to take a turn for the worse around lunch time today at this intersection. I went home for [...]
Traffic Light Problems Continue to Plague Brickell
It seems like things are getting worse, not better, for those of us that live and work around Brickell. The traffic lights on Brickell Avenue and SE 14th Street were broken yet again today. Yesterday morning Public Service Aides were at this intersection directing traffic during morning rush hour, but today they were no where [...]
Intelligent Traffic Lights
Forget red light cameras like Fort Lauderdale and many other Florida cities want to install. If anything, evidence has shown that they make traffic lights worse, as the cities or the contractors decrease yellow time to hand out more tickets. No, we want to see useful technology come to our traffic lights.
Thankfully, Germany has some [...]
Disco Lights
Although we don’t generally preach about the available methods to improve the flow of vehicular traffic, Larry Lebowitz from the Herald, recently dug up the truth about Miami’s hectic streetlight grid. The system is archaic to say the least, as it was considered cutting edge technology back when disco was just coming of age.
As [...]
