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Traffic Relief: FDOT Changes Traffic Signal Timing On Davis Highway
May 22, 2014
In order to accommodate the increased traffic congestion resulting from the Scenic Highway detour, the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) has changed the traffic signal timing along Davis Highway. Recent heavy rains and flooding in the area caused damage to Scenic Highway in several locations, with the associated detour routes having been designated as Davis Highway and Ninth Avenue.
These plans will result in a longer green time on Davis Highway which will allow for a more expedient flow of traffic during peak periods. The morning peak plan will favor the southbound direction while the afternoon peak plan will favor the northbound direction. These changes could also increase wait time for side street motorists entering Davis Highway and pedestrians attempting to cross Davis Highway.
The signalized intersections along the corridor will be monitored for the duration of the detour, and the signal timings will be adjusted and fine-tuned as necessary. Motorists are encouraged to be patient as ongoing roadway work is progressing to provide full recovery from the damage caused by the recent storms.
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10 Responses to “Traffic Relief: FDOT Changes Traffic Signal Timing On Davis Highway”
You need to go back and redo the timing on the traffic light for those traveling on university parkway TO davis hwy because those traveling south on davis apparently can’t read when it says DO NOT BLOCK ROADWAY!!! Therefore the travelers on university parkway are sitting through more than their fair share of red lights. I just sat through three Before I could turn on to davis hwy!!! That light is THE worst!
If you want to alleviate the traffic problem on Davis, the best answer is to close University from Johnson to Davis, 4 lane Johnson to Olive, and 6 Lane Olive over to Davis. This would mean everyone coming up University from the direction of Nine Mile would have to turn right onto Johnson, and then over into the left lane for the left turn onto Olive. At the Intersection of Olive they would turn right onto Davis or Go straight through Olive. Any traffic for the Hospital would turn left off of University onto Johnson and go in that way.
But based on the current ownership and usage of the land, getting the eminent domain necessary to use the land would be too expensive.
The six laning of Highway 29 between Nine Mile Road down to interstate 10 is waiting on the completion of the Nine Mile Road work between the Intersection of Palafox down Nine Mile to the Intersection of Beulah road – to accomodate the massive increase in traffic thanks to the construction of Navy Federal – where 3 to 4 thousand people will be working on a daily basis.
The light at Broad Street (just north of I-10) has to have a very short timing signal, because of another consideration traffic engineers have to deal with:
the accident rate at the intersection.
the way the roads are built at 29 and Broad means during afternoon traffic if the lights were timed to allow for a higher average speed, accidents at the intersection would be more frequent.
so they lowered the timing on the light to obtain an average speed of 37 miles an hour, and the accident rate at that intersection dropped by nearly half. the rate of serious injuries dropped even further because the new lower average speed means there was less energy involved in a collision.
Also on that same topic, they need to fix the problem with the lights giving green turn arrows to empty turn lanes.
I have seen that a few times.
Davis Highway has needed adjustments to the lights anyway. It gets so backed up even before the detour was in place.
Highway 29 seems to get backed up in the mornings around 730 because of that light at Broad street just north of i-10. It doesn’t stay green long enough for traffic on 29 to really move.
I haven’t been through there recently at that time, but that was always the one I noticed causing the problem because after that light its smooth sailing and doesnt have anything to do with opening up to 6 lanes.
90 % of traffic lights in escambia co. Not timed right !!! This County is a Joke !!
Busydavis,
Its not that big of a deal when the people turn from university on to Davis. Its all but a fee cars and they aren’t blocking you from proceeding south as they can only go southbound Hahahaha wow!
A no turn on red would back up university even worse than it currently gets. I’ve traveled both and what you are talking about is a moot point. You fail to see the bigger picture and they synchronization of the lights. Turn them all green for 3 1/2 minutes. Then stagger them red from Johnson/University/Olive/ to past I110 on allowing cars to pass through and not stop at the red on olive so vehicles can file in from university since its the only way to go. Once they figure of the stagger time (a third grader can do it) it will work.
Johnson goes red, the last cars that make the light should make University also. Then university goes red. Those cars that make the university light will make the olive light and so on so few if any cars are at the olive light so the cars from university can pile on in then time the time it takes those cars to hit olive and then it green right away so they make that like for three minutes or little activity and do that for 2 complete cycles. Then repeat the cycle for east/westbound cars for Olive 2 cycles. Then repeat. All it takes is a little critical thinking!!!
@Busydavis:
A no-turn on red would only invite MORE people to by-pass the intersection by running around the Walgreens and forcing their way into traffic. Maybe a traffic signal behind the drug store would help.
You thinks its bad on 29 now wait till they start the six lane project north of the interstate. As far as Davis goes its been a nightmare for a very long time what need to be done is a connection to I 110 south from 90 to take some of the traffic off of Davis Hwy
Now FDOT needs to adjust the timing on Hwy 29 south of I10 at 5pm. Those lights are exact opposites and traffic is awful.
The southbound lanes are just as bad in the afternoon. Obviously they didn’t pay attention to that. And how about a “no turn on red” light up sign to turn on during peak travel hours for the red light on university at Davis. You try not to block traffic when driving southbound but if you stay back at the line then you’ll never get out for all the yahoos trying to turn right onto Davis. Everyone is in such a big hurry but it only makes it worse.