Traffic Lights Give Denver Drivers More Time
DENVER (CBS4)- Drivers in Denver will soon have more time to get through and wait at traffic lights. Starting Monday, April 11, those traffic lights will have an additional 15 seconds.
Denver Public Works will add the extra time to all 235 traffic signals in downtown Denver. The wait time will be 90 seconds.
The city said the change is needed to accommodate all modes of transportation, including bicyclists, pedestrians and mass transit.
In addition to the longer traffic lights, crews will remove the diagonal cross walk signals in downtown Denver. The pavement markings will be revised to erase the diagonal cross walks at 45 intersections.
Instead, pedestrians will have an exclusive "all walk" phase when all vehicle traffic will be stopped for crossing.
A study of pedestrian crossing patterns found that less than 10 percent of people used the diagonal crossing when it was available.
