Concerns about exisiting light at hwy 54 & MacDuff

I hope that someone (city? DOT?) is aware of and addressing this situation.

The existing traffic light at Hwy 54 and MacDuff Parkway stays red on the MacDuff side for long stretches. This is nothing new, but at times during the morning and evening the traffic trying to get out of Wilksmoor backs up past the apartments, past Cedar Croft and beyond the first stop sign. I guess it’s more important not to inconvenience the traffic moving to and from Coweta than to inconvenience the town’s resident taxpayers, but that's another matter. A more recent development is that cars coming in and out of the new shopping center across from MacDuff are adding to the problems at this intersection. Many of those cars are going straight from the shopping center down MacDuff, meaning that cars coming out from MacDuff and turning left have to yield. This makes this long light even longer. Fewer cars can get through the light when it turns green and it’s ripe for accidents. I was almost hit tonight. The car coming from the shopping center was turning left toward Coweta and I turned left toward PTC at the same time. The car behind the shopping center car, however was going straight and was not going to yield, even though I was almost already through the turn. There are no left turn signals. There is no other way out of Wilksmoor, the shopping center isn’t even open yet except for a few places, and I can see the traffic piling up when the activity at the shopping center increases causing long backlogs of people trying to get out of Wilksmoor.

Is anyone else aware of this and is anything being done?

Steve Brown: You ain't seen nothing yet, Arf

Submitted by Steve Brown on Mon, 05/11/2009 - 11:14pm.

If that additional big box traffic signal goes in, GDOT will have to squeeze the living daylights out of the signal times.

The commuters from Coweta are going to scream, so will the retail owners on 54-W.

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