Storm knocks out traffic lights at busy intersection
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Fayette County Amateur Radio Repeaters
02:11
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No, we got clawed yesterday afternoon with the lightning and the thunderstorm of rain.
00:06
They didn't hardly get anything.
00:07
It was literally driver 911 when they got there, but it knocked out the lights at the GA 54/GA 74 intersection.
00:17
So they all went on flashing.
00:19
And I can't count the number of calls between the five of us we took about people complaining about the lights there.
00:27
No traffic control, but.
00:29
Here's the problem with their brand new design.
00:31
There's no way you can put cops out there to do traffic direction because of how far away the turn lanes are, especially on 74 north and south.
00:42
You can't do it anymore.
00:44
So they've never thought about, you know, what do you do with a malfunctioning signal at an intersection like that?
00:51
And everybody threw their hands up in the air and it took unfortunately GDOT probably.
00:57
About 3 h to remedy the problem, so you can imagine the number of not very happy drivers this is happening.
01:07
You know, go home from work time and I think they finally got it fixed just before 09:00 .
01:13
Hey, 4YZ .
01:19
I hadn't heard that.
01:22
Yeah,
01:25
so there's no,
01:26
there's no local control.
01:29
A battery backup that would keep those things running for a couple hours with all the same synchronization.
01:40
Apparently not.
01:41
Had
01:43
one of my calls was state patrol and then asked if we could remedy the problem.
01:48
And we had about a five-minute chat about the difficulty of trying to direct traffic at a place like that.
01:54
And state patrol trooper scratched his head and said, "You know you're right about that.
01:58
I hadn't really thought about that." And I don't think anybody has thought about that.
02:03
All they did is went into, you know, standard flashing red so everybody has to stop, but.
02:09
Where people have to stop nowadays.
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