![]() This is great for those who live in the area who will finally have access to reclaimed water for irrigation. The long-stalled project is to lay a 36-inch reclaimed water line along 62nd Avenue out to First Street and then north on First to 74th Avenue. There are one or two isolated outages, but nothing major.įor those of you who have had to deal with the slalom runs of traffic barricades along 62nd Avenue NE where part of the street is dug up, pipes are sitting on the grass to the north and nothing has happened for months, here's the skinny. Good News Department: Along I-275 in both directions, the street lights that were dialed down to black by recent storms from 54th Avenue N northward have been restored. As we have said before, we prefer brick to asphalt, anyway, but in this case it creates a jolt for through traffic on 11th Avenue or for traffic turning right on to 11th Avenue from Ninth Street S. King (Ninth) Street, a big patch of asphalt has come up, exposing the brick street below. In the westbound lane of 11th Avenue S, just west of Dr. We're not sure how this happened, but if you catch your right wheels in this mess, it will loosen some fillings, not to mention jiggling your eyeballs. The concrete next to the shoulder appears to have been smashed with a jackhammer. Northbound I-275, right lane under the 54th Avenue N overpass. ![]() Let's get to everybody's favorite feature, the Eyeball Jiggler of the Week, better known to its friends as the EJW. The county was wonderful about retiming the left-turn green from southbound 49th Street to eastbound 118th Avenue, and we hope the roadies will be as quick to address this problem. We know the situation will be cleared up eventually when an overpass is built there and the lights go away, but that's a long way off. State and county traffic gurus need to get together and take a look. The timing might have been okay when the new road first opened, but more and more drivers are discovering it, and as traffic gets heavier, the dangers will get steadily worse. Without fail, there were vehicles racing through the intersection well after the lights had gone green for the north-south turning lanes. We watched through a half dozen light cycles, and without fail, cars and trucks ran the reds in both directions because the east-west green cycle is so short _ no more than 10 seconds. And we got the full force of that problem, too. The other complaint we heard was that the green lights for through traffic in both directions on 118th/Bryan Dairy were too short, too. The timing of the lights should be reset to allow for longer greens during rush hours. We can only imagine what it must have been like an hour later. Readers persuaded us to return during a rush hour, and we did.Īt 4:45 on a Monday afternoon, it took two cycles of the lights to clear one backlog of turning vehicles. ![]() ![]() But, we were there in the middle of the day. The greens allowed all the traffic to clear both lanes. So we went out there to look, and the timing looked fine. ![]()
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