I have an update about the traffic lights at the intersection of the Cloverdale Bypass and 57th Avenue.
Someone made a decision to paint lines on 57th Avenue on the west side of the Cloverdale Bypass making a left hand turn lane and the curb lane for through traffic and right hand turns. The problem with this is that the sensor that activates the lights is now only where the left hand turn lane is. Area residents know where the sensor is. It was covered over a few months ago when the road was resurfaced following the construction of Brick Yard Station. Not a problem because everyone knew it was there and stopped there.
At least it was not a problem until someone - probably in the engineering department who sits at a desk at Surrey's city hall and unfamiliar with the intersection - decided to paint lines here making the place where the sensor is left hand turn only.
Why they decided to do that I have no idea. This is not a high traffic area.
However this is a problem for a driver who wants to go east across the Cloverdale Bypass. They'll sit there for a long time waiting for a driver to get in the left hand turn lane or someone travelling west on 57th to activate the lights from the other side of the road.
Last week I watched a driver wait for about 5 minutes. It was 10:30 at night. No oncoming traffic. Nobody in the left hand lane. The driver finally ran the red light to cross the Bypass.
An accident waiting to happen.
I guess the city has finally received enough complaints from area residents.
I thought the least expensive solution would be to change the line painting and make the curb right turn only and the centre lane for through and left hand traffic.
But no the city went the more expensive route. Today I drove past and saw a crew digging up the street to put sensor on the curb side lane. Tonight I checked and both lanes have sensors.
Now they just have to put in a pedestrian activated light on the Brick Yard Station side and that intersection will by much safer.
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