City modifying northeast traffic signal during off-peak hours
The City of Fort Wayne's Traffic Engineering Department will modify the traffic signal at St. Joseph Center Road and Arlington Parkway beginning Wednesday evening for off-peak driving times.
It will go to a red-yellow flashing schedule 11 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. starting Wednesday, Nov. 26. The signal will flash yellow on the St. Joe Center and red on Arlington.
A resident recommended this change and Traffic Engineering determined that the volume of vehicles merited the change.
This summer, Traffic Engineering started evaluating traffic lights for locations such as shopping centers and schools that have specific hours of operation or intersections of arterial roads and residential streets during nighttime hours when the volume of traffic is much lower.
The change will save drivers time, can reduce gasoline consumption and reduce greenhouse gases.
Traffic Engineering regularly evaluates traffic counts and patterns throughout Fort Wayne's streets for locations where changing traffic lights during off-peak hours would make sense. The City announces when traffic light operations will change.