Some sensible cost cutting, good bye and good riddance to half of the TMA

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Permalink Reply by Kevin Mulcky on August 5, 2011 at 8:35am

Oh man! That Division & Elston prolonged wait was the worst. It about gave me a panic attack.

Steven Vance said:

The worst part about TMAs, from my perspective, was giving some of them authority to control the traffic signal phases/cycle. You'll see the TMA at a signal control box on one corner of an intersection (Clark and Harrison, and Division and Elston come to mind) holding a controller that's wired into the box.

Then you wait. For. Five. Minutes.

And it has no positive effect. Traffic remains congested, but now consistently blocks the intersection.

Glad to see many of them go.