Traffic backing up on Gentile & Flint - This is on a GOOD day.
The T-intersection of Flint & Gentile has just been given a stop light. This was in anticipation of a few things: Gentile has picked up a lot traffic over the past few years, there is Layton Elementary very nearby, and a new I-15 interchange is going in on Flint. So more traffic is anticipated, safer for elementary kids to have a light, and theoretically a stop light would let people turn west on to Gentile from Flint and south onto Flint from Gentile.
The one thing that irks me to death everytime I go by the new stoplight is they effectively wiped out the *understood* right hand turning lane that everyone used to turn south onto Flint from Gentile. With the new light design, there is only one lane and if a single car goes straight and gets stopped at the light, EVERY right turning car has to wait wait wait. It is already a problem and gets backed up 3o to 40 cars in the mornings and the interchange is not completed (which means a large part of daily traffic is using some other route, especially given that Gentile and Main is under construction right now as well). What’s MORE inane is the fact there is a HUGE swath of land that could have been used to make the turn lane. All they need is 3 more feet to make it work.
Once the interchange to I-15 is done, this is going to be STOOPID. I just can’t imagine increasing traffic, of whom a majority will want to turn right onto Flint, is going to make this STOOPID STUPID STOOOOOOPID intersection work better. I want to throttle someone at Layton City for allowing this. GRRRRRRR.