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Originally Posted by ton80
Sorry JM that new lights and other recent changes may have to be revised. They were a solution to a previous situation. A New Walmart creates a new problem and a need for a new solution.
Hopefully the required traffic study will point out the overall traffic problem and ways to improve traffic flow such as stacking and merge lanes. The recent changes at the extension of Buena Vista at RT44 included stacking lanes and traffic flow at this intersection are much lower than RT44 and Morse. So there is some hope they will find a good solution for Walmart to pay for.
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Some responders state it is dangerous and have seen very bad accidents there. Others say no problem. I believe that the difference is their experience in what their travel entails.
1. Going straight through on Morse or RT 44 in either direction should be no problem with minimum danger unless there is a back-up. With a new Walmart and increased traffic on Morse both direction to and from the southern villages will only get worse. When frustration grows strong enough some drivers may try new crossovers on RT 44 East and some may and have end up in crashes.
2. The heavy traffic around 4pm makes access to Morse South a challenge from Osceola Hills (Deskin LN crossover).. We go N to the roundabout and then go 270 around to go South
2.Trying to make a left turn on RT 44 East to Morse N has been the situation with major crashes occurring until the blinking left turn signal was eliminated. The problem of seeing what traffic is coming is made difficult since RT44 has some curvature to it and the Rt44 left stacking lane hides the oncoming traffic, if I remember correctly
3.Many have suggested stacking lanes and double turns but have right turns on red. These need careful study because right turn on red into 55+mph traffic when the are two right turn lanes require merge lanes. Also, the oncoming traffic includes drivers who have a green left arrow and are joining your traffic lanes. Right turn on red is supposed to still mean you yield to oncoming but few obey that way. WE can can try to educate them but I prefer to have defined rules.
So IMHO we need a good traffic survey to establish today's traffic and then a study to try to define what can/would happen in the future. Reducing the speed to 45 as done further East on Rt44 seems to be a good step.
End of rant.