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It has been around year since the McTeer Bridge was hit and all Lady's Island traffic had to be rerouted through downtown. SCDOT did a good job of getting people in and out of Lady's Island given the circumstances. Here we are a year later and we almost forgot it ever happened. Part of their solution was to reprogram the traffic light at the Ribaut and Boundary intersection, but they forgot to come back and put it back the way it was. The wait on the Ribaut Road side is by far the longest I can ever remember at any traffic light. Not to mention the fact that people have to wait for the light for traffic crossing Boundary Street and coming onto Ribaut Road from that little street, the name of which escapes me right now, even when there are no vehicles waiting there.
What happened? Did they get too busy to come back and put things back? I'm just curious. I avoid that light now and use the side streets. Would you believe it is quicker to go behind the courthouse and come out to Boundary Street at the government center light?
I'm sure it was an oversight, but it is time it gets fixed.
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Maybe someone should call the traffic management center. About a month ago the light at the end of the Mcteer and Ribaut Rd. was allowing the traffic to flow on Ribaut Rd for what seemed like 15 minutes while traffic just piled up on the Mcteer. I called traffic management and they said they had switched software for that light and someone was going to have to come from Columbia to fix it. They did come and they actually restored the light to the correct timing.....maybe they could do the same for ribaut/boundary.
The wait on that side of the light has been horrendously long for a long time before the bridge event. I can remember waiting 10-15 minutes at that light as long as three years ago.
Supposedly, and it was in the paper a while back, that when they went in to reprogram all of the lights on Ribaut that they had to reprogram, they lost the program that they had them on before. So when they went back to reprogram them to the way they were before, they had to just kinda guess and play with it until they got it the way that they wanted it. As far as I knew it was fixed, but I have waited at that light for a very long time. I remember sitting there for nearly 8 minutes one day, before it got fixed.
Another light that I hate is the light at the intersection of Boundary and Robert Smalls. I work at a resturant, and normally when I get off at night, its late. I have been stopped at that light, with nobody around at like 1 am, and the light doesnt change so that I can go...I have to wait there for like 5 minutes for it to go all the way through its cycle.
Defensive driving is the rule not the exception.
You don't have to wait at the Ribaut Boundary intersection, just put the car in park and go push the button on the pole, yes you are a pedestrian while you are running through traffic, and we all know pedestrians have the right of way.
Surely you are aware that the next 5 cars traveling on Boundary Street are going to run the red light when it changes. Plenty of time to get back into your car.
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There must be a law of physics that states that time speeds up when facing a red light. A two minute red light speeds up time for those waiting into 15 minutes. Those of us who are unlucky enough to catch red lights often also get older faster than those people who catch green lights often. It must be an undiscovered law of physics. Wonder if any of Einstein's mathematics would support that?