West-side drivers using the 21st Street corridor likely stop for red lights at any number of intersections, regardless of the time of day or the traffic load. And for those who exit at Zoo Boulevard to make their way into downtown, the red lights keep coming.
Only some of the traffic signals along that 10-mile route currently have vehicle detection equipment, and the city says the controllers for the signals that are in place don’t have the latest technology. As a result, the traffic monitoring technology is not as effective as it could be to keep traffic moving on that major east-west thoroughfare from northwest Wichita to downtown.
But that is in the process of changing…