Are new Route 30 lights moving traffic faster?
With the new "smart" traffic lights along Route 30, Yang Ha said her commute time has been cut in half - from 20 minutes to 10.
Ha, who works at Kenmae Hair & Nails in Manchester Township, said she's good because she travels the major corridor and gets the green light.
"I like it," she said, adding there's "no traffic in the morning."
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Marcie Mitrovich, of East Manchester Township, uses back roads to avoid Route 30, and she has noticed that she's sitting "a lot longer" on the side roads that feed into the main corridor. She said it feels like she's waiting five to 10 minutes to get the green light.
Transportation officials have gotten feedback from the public about the new signals, which have equipment that watches the traffic in real time and adjusts the lights accordingly. The new lights on Route 30 went live on April 25, and they are intended to make the trip quicker across town -- outside of rush hour.
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New "smart" traffic lights on Route 74 from Dover to West Manchester Township went live on May 9. Another set along Route 74 near the fairgrounds over to Market Street and down Richland Avenue will go live June 6.
Drivers have reported improvements on the mainline of Route 30, but they have complained about delays on accessing the route from the side roads, said Greg Penny, a spokesman for the state Department of Transportation
"There are winners and losers. There are no doubts about that," said Will Clark, chief of transportation planning with the York County Planning Commission.
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Officials will be pulling the data and looking at the corridor as a whole to see if the reduction in time traveling on Route 30 outweighs the wait on the side roads. The lights will need to be live for about a month before officials can start looking at the data.
Officials continue to work to make sure the lights are optimized, and tweaks are being made, Clark said.
Transportation officials might look at other improvements, such as adding a right turn lane at an intersection, for example, to address traffic problems. But the first step is to do the signal improvements.
He reminds drivers the lights will not operate in the same order all of the time. For example, the lights are adjusting to help prevent traffic in left-turn lanes from backing into the straight-through lanes.
They've been hearing about drivers running red lights. Clark urges them to be patient and wait for the green light.
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