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Old 08-11-2014, 12:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Wiserbud47 View Post
The real test for the new lights is to see how difficult it is to travel on the cart path coming southbound from Morse Blvd. and making a left onto Colony Blvd. to go to the Colony Plaza. The light stops the vehicle traffic on Colony Blvd. but what about the golf carts traveling northbound straight across Colony Blvd? They have the right-of-way and will definitely reduce the number of carts that can make the left turn. Last winter I observed 10-15 carts backed up on the path. The light will help a little but the only way to improve this would be to have the light for the northbound carts stay red to awhile while the light for the southbound carts is green.
I suspect that if it becomes a problem, it will be easy to program the lights to delay the green for northbound carts so that those southbound carts can turn toward the plaza.
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