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City of Bloomington, Indiana

closed: Submission Received #212054

City Performance:

Other: The City needs to think in terms of the waterfall or cascade of issues when they do something. College Ave is closed south of 3rd. The detour goes west to Rogers, south to 2nd, and east on 2nd to College. But, the City has messed up the intersection of 2nd and Rogers. The most obvious problem is the removal of the left turn arrow for south bound Rogers traffic at the 2nd intersection. That’s genius. The other big issue is that from the time the southbound Rogers light turns green to going back to red, it was 18 seconds today. That is not enough time to get normal Rogers traffic, let alone detour traffic from College, through. And, not enough time for vehicles turning left from Rogers onto eastbound 2nd to allow northbound Rogers traffic to clear and then make a turn with no arrow. Any way to fix this light with an arrow and hold it open on green longer? Today at 2pm, not even a busy time, traffic was backed up almost to 3rd, and it took a ton of light cycles to get through going south on Rogers. No idea how this gets overlooked.

Assigned to
Neil Kopper

History

6/30/2026 17:09:45 Closed by John Garzee

Thank you for calling this out. You are right that the signal timing at 2nd and Rogers needs to account for the College Avenue closure and the additional detour traffic. This one was on me. The timing that was initially provided was for regular conditions, and I missed that it would be implemented during the College closure. I apologize for that. We are working with the temporary signal contractor and signal timing consultant now. The goal is to have the southbound Rogers timing adjusted, including the left-turn operation, by tomorrow’s evening commute. I appreciate you flagging it quickly so we can get it corrected. John Garzee Traffic Engineer

Sent notification to Neil Kopper
https://bloomington.in.gov/crm/tickets/view?ticket_id=212054 Closed by John Garzee Thank you for calling this out. You are right that the signal timing at 2nd and Rogers needs to account for the College Avenue closure and the additional detour traffic. This one was on me. The timing that was initially provided was for regular conditions, and I missed that it would be implemented during the College closure. I apologize for that. We are working with the temporary signal contractor and signal timing consultant now. The goal is to have the southbound Rogers timing adjusted, including the left-turn operation, by tomorrow’s evening commute. I appreciate you flagging it quickly so we can get it corrected. John Garzee Traffic Engineer

6/30/2026 17:06:49 Gretchen Knapp assigned this case to Neil Kopper

Hi Neil, Can you please take a look at this? Is there anything we can do to improve the situation? Thank you! --Gretchen

Sent notification to Neil Kopper
https://bloomington.in.gov/crm/tickets/view?ticket_id=212054 Gretchen Knapp assigned this case to Neil Kopper You can use the link to follow progress on this case. Hi Neil, Can you please take a look at this? Is there anything we can do to improve the situation? Thank you! --Gretchen

6/30/2026 16:47:03 Anonymous assigned this case to Gretchen Knapp

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https://bloomington.in.gov/crm/tickets/view?ticket_id=212054 Anonymous assigned this case to Gretchen Knapp You can use the link to follow progress on this case.

6/30/2026 16:47:03 Opened by Anonymous

506 W 2nd ST

CityBloomington
StateIN
Zip47403
Latitude39.161441802979
Longitude-86.538665771484
Neighborhood AssociationProspect Hill
TownshipPerry

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