If you ride a bike or are a walker in University City, you might find
these changes welcome; at least I do. Increased traffic enforcement
against violators is certainly something that would benefit us all.
I do often find myself wondering if it was truly an engineer who came up
with many of these traffic light systems; certainly, the lights can be
timed to expedite the flow of vehicular traffic through these
intersections and still afford cyclists and pedestrians safe and
accessible thoroughfare.
Just my .02 cents...
Regards,
John
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Friends and Neighbors:
The following was in today's DN.
It's been suggested that lots of us have items we might add to the list (the
horrible left turn going north from University Ave/38th St onto
Chester/Baltimore, coupled with the timing of the lights to actually get onto Chester or
Baltimore at 39th Street comes immediately to mind).
Al Krigman
reminding you that you read it first, here, on the popu-list
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Letters: My University City traffic nightmares
Philadelphia Daily News (9/29/08)
IWORK at 37th and Walnut. If there is a hell for drivers, it must be
University City with the constant construction, vast number of pedestrians, trucks,
taxis, buses and double-parking.
Now, it seems, the city is on a mission to make things worse by adding more
traffic lights, stop signs and no-turn-on-red signs.
Some specific nightmare spots:
31st and Spring Garden. About a year ago, the city put up a no-turn-on-red
sign. The effect: long lines of idling cars on 31st Street burning up $3.75 a
gallon gasoline.
Spring Garden Bridge at the Art Museum. A new light went up last month.
Result? More cars backed up on the bridge. Everything seemed to move well before
the light.
34th at Lancaster, at the 7-Eleven. Another new light. Trucks continue to
block the right lane as they unload their deliveries to the store. With the new
light, there is effectively only one open lane at the light. Traffic backs
way up 34th.
And let's not forget all the bike lanes our last mayor was so fond of,
turning four-lane roads into two lanes. Again, lots of idling, polluting cars.
When is the city going to do something to improve traffic flow in University
City?
Donald Kaufmann, Philadelphia
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