Editor,
In the Aug 5, 2014 edition of Current in Fishers, in your “Road construction continues” article, you said the real time signal system should be finished by August, I have noticed that the contractors installed one loop in each lane at the affected intersections and they later went back and added additional loops at some intersections.
My question is: Are they going to add loops at all affected intersections since drivers do not pull up far enough to trip the sensor?
For example, on northbound Hague Road at 116th Street, drivers often do not pull up far enough to trip the sensor. I now go out of my way to avoid this left turn.
Robert Piggush
46038
Robert,
The Town of Fishers did go back and add loops on some side street approaches where detection issues were noticed. Loops were added in locations where vehicles were not pulling up at the stop bar in the “right” location to activate the loop. A couple of examples of this were at Conner Creek and 116th; River Glen and Allisonville – typically the lower volume side streets that might have a vehicle or two and if they stop in the wrong place then detection was a challenge. They were not added everywhere because they do cost more, and again many intersections had no perceived problems. At Hague Road and 116th Street, we did not see a detection problem nor did we receive comments like this from the public until now. There is generally more traffic at Hague Road that resulted in detection most all of the time. The two lane NB approach also helps.
It is absolutely feedback like this that can help us troubleshoot before complete rollout. We will ask the contractor to install supplemental loops at Hague Road.
Jeff Hill, Director
Department of Engineering