closed #161435
Traffic Signals
1001-1099 South Fairview Street
- Case Date:
- 10/4/2017
Traffic sensor aimed poorly when coming from Fairview from the north
Traffic sensor aimed poorly when coming from Fairview from the north
The do not walk light on the southwest corner of this intersection facing north is out.
The light at Walnut and Kirkwood is mistimed for northbound traffic on Walnut. Instead of waiting at one light and then getting green lights for the rest of the lights on Walnut, traffic has to stop at Kirkwood and again at 6th Street.
So.....there is an orange cone tucked up in this traffic light. It looks as if someone threw it up there. I do not think this is an emergency to solve, but it could eventually fall someday.
Skirt is loose on automatic signal post
Timing is completely off during late night hours (after 11pm). Light is functioning the same as if during heavy day traffic - with a wait time of 3-5 minutes while light cycles for all lanes, even when no one there. People are (understandably) running the light instead of waiting.
The signals are no longer synced properly. You can see the next signal turn red as yours turns green. Backwards.
I seem to remember that when the traffic light was installed on Walnut Street at Smith Avenue it should have only turned red for Walnut when activated by pedestrian or vehicular traffic on Smith Avenue. I don't know if that designation changed or if there is an equipment malfunction, but for the past few weeks the light has been cycling on it's own with no traffic of any kind present on Smith Avenue.
Traffic lights are out.
There is a metal post with a sign on the train tracks right at the intersection of Indiana Ave and 13th St that looks very frail. In the past wind advisory situations we have had in the city, anytime the wind hit the post, that post sounded as if the wind could dislodged it violently from the base and the sign at the top could fly off into near-by buildings, it even sounded horribly loud as the sign does not seem to be securely attached to the post. When that happened I called 9-1-1 to let them know and asked them to contact whoever is in charge of the tracks for them to look into that by securing that post. However, nothing happened. Tonight, with the tornado watch and the very strong winds we are having, it's the same situation with the post. Because of that, I called the Indiana Railroad Company's emergency number and they said they would email someone but that that would take some time and they were not sure they would get to it that night since they were also in tornado watch.