Rediculous traffic lights............

Traffic can be a bit thick on Cox Creek Pky and the side streets, I do not think having just a stop sign at most of the intersections would be practical at all and I think overpasses are a bit out of budget for the moment.

The Raven: You are correct that the lights can be a little annoying! It is a small price to pay to have all of our roads re-paved. What I do is simply backroad all the way to my destination. Other than this minor discomfort, you have gotta love this little place!

The traffic lights in this town has long been a thorn of frustration for me and I've commented about it on more than one occasion. They are poorly planned all over town but I'm told it is a state matter.

One of the worst that I've noticed lately is the one in front of Legends and the post office. Why on earth is stays red most of the time for traffic traveling on Seminary is beyond me, especially since Mobile St. is closed! Ugh!!!!!!!!!

You would think that today's technology would provide more sophisticated lights.

Yeah, whoever programed them set them up on a quick (quick as in quicker for them to program, not quicker for us in traffic) timer scheme. They were programed previously using the magnetic sensors in the road to determine what the light output is. I'm not sure if they ripped up the sensors when repaving and just haven't had time to put them back down, or if the plan on leaving them that way. I surely hope they don't leave them like that. Annoying is an understatement.

It may take one of the officals- state or city- going to eat the special and misses it before they change it!!!

Just run them when nobody is looking. Go to downtown Tuscumbia and try to figure out why your sitting at those redlights.

Yes they will be fixed once the road work is done...The grading dug up the traffic loops...New ones have to be installed at every intersection, so I guess it will be awhile...But it will be back to normal once they are fixed.

I agree with Raven. They are not timed for traffic flow or for peak times. Worse point is the Jackson Hiway and Creekwood signals lack off coordination. They are going to get someone killed by hanging them out in the intersection when the light changes. I've seen this several times. Poor engineering.

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Originally posted by WhistleBritches:
Just run them when nobody is looking. Go to downtown Tuscumbia and try to figure out why your sitting at those redlights.

all the tuscumbia lights are in a pattern, don't roll to fast.

you can hit all the lights on cave at 19mph or so, you shouldn't have to stop for but one light on main, same with water.

all the lights downtown (except for cave iirc) turn into four way stops at night

russellville used to be like this also, but i've heard they have done away with the redlights since i've last been in town.

The only lights in Florence that are synched well are those on Pine Street.

There was an article in the paper recently about the lights on Cox Creek. This may or may not have something to do with the problem.

http://www.timesdaily.com/arti...-intersections-down#

If Florence didn't have the red lights...cars would be running about 80 miles an hour! The lights help keep cars at a required speed and of course cars from side roads are able to pull out into Coxs Creek when they get a green light...thank goodness (or you would be sitting there all day)...go shopping in the country if you don't want to deal with red lights..." )

Seems I remember an article in the TD a year or so ago about synchronizing the lights along Flo Blvd.
The merchants along the strip put a stop to it so people would have to stop in front of their stores.
I have come to the conclusion that either one of two things is true: either whoever designs our intersections and the traffic control in our area has NEVER set foot in a real city where it is to the benefit of everybody to move traffic making them just plain ignorant, OR some high official in the area has a brother-in-law who sells stop lights.
My favorite pet peeve is the design of the Paton Island Bridge aka "Stoplight Bridge".
New construction, plenty of funds, but stoplights at Veterans, and River Road. Have these idiots NEVER seen on and off ramps ?

I'm beginning to believe we will NEVER get an interstate quality highway through here (which WOULD be an enormous benefit to our financial well-being) because the local idiots couldn't find a way to put stop lights on it.

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Originally posted by Justice for All:
If Florence didn't have the red lights...cars would be running about 80 miles an hour! The lights help keep cars at a required speed and of course cars from side roads are able to pull out into Coxs Creek when they get a green light...thank goodness (or you would be sitting there all day)...go shopping in the country if you don't want to deal with red lights..." )

Justice,my point is when you have a main thoroughfare- here, Cox Creek Pky- every one has to stop, wait for no one to go through the light from 2 different directions. When the light changes,then A BUNCH of cars travel together, and no one gets to pull out or takes their life in their own hands. Has anyone noticed this Cox Creek phenomenon? And I'm not talking about shopper's only, daily commuters who have to rush getting to point A to B in a timely fashion, emergency vehicles!(this I've seen twice now)
Like seeweed remarked, do these "stoplight enganears" not see what's going on these roads or are they designing this in another country????lol!

My bet is on the bro-in-law stop-light sales professional in another country....