For those who’ve been wondering about the flashing red light at Roosevelt Way Northeast and Northeast 95th Street:
“The wind storm caused an outage and the controller at this intersection had a difficult time restoring from the loss of power. We ended up having to replace the controller yesterday in the afternoon,” the Seattle transportation department reports this morning.
For those who haven’t, the pedestrian-activated red light at that intersection suddenly turned on as a flashing red light after this weekend’s windstorm.
Traditionally that makes it a four-way stop, except that the lights only face north and south on Roosevelt. Which created some confusion.
You can report malfunctioning traffic signals on the SDOT website. They probably didn’t know that the signal was malfunctioning. I’ve reported messed up traffic signals, as well as whole blocks that have all their street lights outs for months. Once I reported them they did get fixed quite quickly. Apparently no one bothers to report a problem!
There is a traffic signal link on this page:
http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/potholereport.htm
So SDOT had no idea it was malfunctioning several weeks before the windstorms?