LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — When traffic lights stay red or green for a little too long, the Regional Transportation Commission works to find out what’s going on. Each month, RTC releases a report on which intersections are seeing high rates of traffic signal detection failures.
In February, 199 intersections across the Las Vegas valley had high signal failure rates.
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“There are 1,700 traffic signals in southern Nevada, and we’re always getting a health report on the detection of these signals every day,” Theresa Gaisser, deputy CEO of RTC Southern Nevada, said.
Signal detectors are the devices that tell a traffic light how many cars are waiting, adjusting the timing of lights. The most common in the valley are induction loops under pavement, or sensors mounted on traffic poles…