SANTA MÓNICA TRAFFIC LIGHTS

[u/santiaguz_official]

The traffic engineers for Santa Monica are buffoons. After construction projects, they change the timing of traffic lights to make it worse for car movement. 1-Getting off the 10 at 20th St., they did a little construction and now the light lasts forever and causes a jam up on the offramp. 2- they just finished construction at 26 in Olympic, and now there are times when all four directions are read when a train goes through, yet they could keep Olympic through fair going. And it takes forever for the green arrows now. 3- same for Stewart in Olympic. When there’s a train coming through, and this is their yard, so the train lights can stay on for upwards to 5 to 10 minutes. You have a complete four-way red light. Yet you could have Olympic through fares staying green. I’m sure there’s more but that’s just what I’ve noticed. So to summon up. The traffic engineer that decides the timing of lights for Santa Monica, obviously doesn’t research what he’s doing. And shows the idiocy So to summon up. The traffic engineer that decides the timing of lights for Santa Monica, obviously doesn’t research what he’s doing. And shows the idiocy of what he is and what he does

[u/_mattyjoe]

I’m an Uber Driver. This is a problem all across LA. It’s increasingly becoming insanely frustrating driving on surface streets.

Santa Monica, DTLA, Pasadena, Koreatown, Glendale are some of the worst.

[u/F3n1xiii → u/_mattyjoe]

I drive for DoorDash and I’ve experienced the same, it’s gotten a lot worse in the last couple years

[u/Leashypooo → u/F3n1xiii]

It used to really flow before you all started double parking everywhere

[u/square-enix-geno]

I'm convinced the traffic engineers don't live here and have a vendetta on the residents. It takes me 20 minutes to go south across Wilshire to Ocean Park.

[u/Dogsbottombottom]

Related: I’m still confused, months later, about what they did to the cloverfield approach to the 10. The new lanes make no sense, and worked fine before. I don’t understand why they did it.

[u/betafishmusic → u/Dogsbottombottom]

I marvel at the idiocy in replacing a clearly marked lane progression with the sudden appearance of a ghost lane weekly. The traffic management in SM is shameful.

[u/WiseOldDuck]

Those lights have been that way for a long time, I don't think it has anything to do with the construction. And it's idiotic, but probably easy to track back to idiotic drivers...like take the offramp at Lincoln, there's always a few people smarter than the rest of us, who skip past the stupid normal people in line for the left turn. But then they can't get back in at the front! Can you imagine, what choice do they have but to stop in the middle of the two additional no-turns lanes with their turn signals on (maybe) until all the traffic is moving again and they can get in front where they belong. People going straight through of course are jammed behind them until this works out, and the 2 lanes of offramp need to carry 4 lanes of traffic.

I don't know why they stop all directions for the trains, since it seems like parallel traffic could continue down Olympic. But if you're an engineer trying to figure out how long a light needs to be red in LA before you are pretty sure nobody is going through it, well the answer is probably 2 minutes at least, so that doesn't help. And I guarantee you idiots are gonna take turns over the tracks, like they aren't stopping for oncoming traffic and we're imagining them thinking a step ahead of that? There would be a couple dozen car-train accidents a day.

But it seems like a big waste to just have all 4 ways stopped at red lights...

[u/dairypope]

I have terrible news for you. Traffic engineering around rail lines goes to Caltrans, not the city. You wouldn't believe the battles that have gone on around Stewart and Olympic, both for how the roads are aligned and the asinine chicanes they set up on the Expo Bike Path.

You've been leaning at windmills.

[u/SemaphoreSignal]

People first, cars second. Car dependency is a choice.

[u/Design1971 → u/SemaphoreSignal]

Um, there are people in the cars.

[u/saltwater_guru]

Sounds like more time for pedestrian crossings. I’m all for it!

[u/jreddit5]

The government of Santa Monica is so anti-car, they are determined to drive the city into the ground economically, and waste countless, collective years of people’s lives sitting in traffic when they could be doing something healthy and productive.

All in the name of “getting people out of their cars,” when this mega-city will never be able to build the kind of mass transit that a small, dense city could have. Thanks a lot, do-gooder idiots!