Are traffic signals becoming too overrated?

[tradephoric]

How is this for interconnectivity?  Driving to your next door neighbors takes 3.1 miles!



Increasing interconnectivity may help in reducing the number of traffic signals along a corridor.  However, traffic signals at major intersecting roads are still necessary and the major corridors in Orlando appear to be irregularly spaced.  It's very hard to coordinate irregularly spaced intersections, but I do agree that eliminating some of the minor signals would be quite helpful to keep traffic moving.

As a driver, I accept that a major corridor might turn into a parking lot during the AM and PM rush.  Sometimes the capacity just isn't there.  What I can't stand is when I'm driving at 10 o'clock at night and end up getting stopped at every other red light.  A driver who is able to maintain the posted speed limit along a major corridor shouldn't be hitting red lights.

[vdeane]

South of Burlington on US 7, the speed limit is 35/40 but the signals are set for 30.  The signs say so.

[roadman65]

You know NE 2 has a brilliant plan of connecting subdivisions together.  New building laws should make that for all new subdivisions and strip malls as they too do not connect among each other as well.

I find it quite annoying now that two shopping centers next too each other have a grass area in between them and no cut across it.  With fuel consumption a must these days and safety being a big issue on our overcrowded roads, this kind of thing is causing more traffic on the roads, as we now need to go out to the street that is already congested that would allow in between vehicles to stay off of the main arterial. 

I have a Dollar Tree near my house, and I have to leave my subdivision onto the busy highway, sit through two lights where if a connection was made between the strip mall on my corner to its neighbor, I would not only have to consume energy to wait at two traffic lights, but also improve safety as I would be one less vehicle on the ever so congested OBT.

The problem is liability  as landowners and developers do not want others on their property for fear of having to be liable and do not want to pay upkeep on the pavement for those who do not patronize them either.

[Alps]

The most successful, happiest, best places to live are the interconnected ones.

[Scott5114]

I find it quite annoying now that two shopping centers next too each other have a grass area in between them and no cut across it.  With fuel consumption a must these days and safety being a big issue on our overcrowded roads, this kind of thing is causing more traffic on the roads, as we now need to go out to the street that is already congested that would allow in between vehicles to stay off of the main arterial. 

There is one such setup near where I live, except that the grass area has not remained a grass area. It became a dirt area because everyone just disregarded it and drove between the properties anyway.