EddieWalker
Epic Contributor
Back on my soapbox. My personal pet peeve, makes me crazy issue is TXDOT. Here in Tyler, we have a Loop that goes around town and one super busy street called Broadway that starts in the middle of town where City Hall is, and then goes South, to where most of the businesses and shopping is located.
If you drive the Loop or Broadway during traffic hours, or lunch time, you will hit 90 percent of the lights red. Yesterday, I hit every light red.
TXDOT also built raised islands with stamped concrete and flower beds in the middle of the Loop that they said would increase safety. According to the spokseman on the radio, they cut head on fatalities in half. Then later on, while questioned by a caller, he admitted that it went from 2 deaths to one death over a 14 month period. Who measured statistics over 14 months unless you are forcing the data?
Then they built a Toll Road to relieve the traffic.
Now they want to build an overpass.
TXDOT spends tens of millions of dollars on things that create traffic, then spends more money studying the traffic, and then more money "fixing" the traffic, but never addressing the core issue of the lights being timed red at every intersection. Instead, when asked, the local City Council members that I've spoken to have told me that it's not true, the lights are random and TXDOT doesn't have the technology to time the lights. That's a lie. And that growth in the city is the cause of the traffic issues, not the lights or the islands that bottleneck traffic.
Every election there is something in there to raise taxes to fix the traffic problem. It's a never ending, self creating issue to make life uncomfortable so they can fix the problem that they have created.
If you drive through town in off hours, or super early in the morning, almost every light is green.
Sorry for the rant, this has nothing to do with where to live. It's just one of those things that I never thought of when moving here. I don't know if it would have changed my mind, it's just an issue that keeps festering for me. I have to deal with it when I'm working there, but when I can avoid it, I wont go into that city!!
If you drive the Loop or Broadway during traffic hours, or lunch time, you will hit 90 percent of the lights red. Yesterday, I hit every light red.
TXDOT also built raised islands with stamped concrete and flower beds in the middle of the Loop that they said would increase safety. According to the spokseman on the radio, they cut head on fatalities in half. Then later on, while questioned by a caller, he admitted that it went from 2 deaths to one death over a 14 month period. Who measured statistics over 14 months unless you are forcing the data?
Then they built a Toll Road to relieve the traffic.
Now they want to build an overpass.
TXDOT spends tens of millions of dollars on things that create traffic, then spends more money studying the traffic, and then more money "fixing" the traffic, but never addressing the core issue of the lights being timed red at every intersection. Instead, when asked, the local City Council members that I've spoken to have told me that it's not true, the lights are random and TXDOT doesn't have the technology to time the lights. That's a lie. And that growth in the city is the cause of the traffic issues, not the lights or the islands that bottleneck traffic.
Every election there is something in there to raise taxes to fix the traffic problem. It's a never ending, self creating issue to make life uncomfortable so they can fix the problem that they have created.
If you drive through town in off hours, or super early in the morning, almost every light is green.
Sorry for the rant, this has nothing to do with where to live. It's just one of those things that I never thought of when moving here. I don't know if it would have changed my mind, it's just an issue that keeps festering for me. I have to deal with it when I'm working there, but when I can avoid it, I wont go into that city!!
