The Glenwood Springs Post-Independent reports that the new configuration of the Glenwood Springs 116 interchange seems to be moving traffic along more efficiently, but that some motorists are having a hard time adjusting to some of the newly placed traffic signals.

More specifically, the one traffic signal just after the right-hand turn from Sixth Street onto the Grand Avenue Bridge. The past configuration had a single traffic turn lane where motorists did not have to stop before turning onto the bridge.

However, the new configuration includes a red-arrow traffic light that requires traffic to stop at the turn. It’s that one aspect that is confusing some motorists, and has caused a few accidents.

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Redmond and Kirkland, two cities east of Seattle, are experimenting with new pavement markings designed to show bicyclists exactly where to stop in order to trigger the embedded detection system that will give them the green light.

One of the frustrations of bike riding in the city can be the failure of traffic signals’ inductive loops buried in the street at intersections to be sensitive enough to detect the relatively lightweight bicycles.

The markings help strike a balance between increasing the system’s sensitivity, which could cause the loops to falsely detect traffic by picking up large vehicles in adjacent lanes, and having cyclists wait longer periods for their green signal.