Alameda Traffic Light Broken for Nearly a Week: Letter to the Editor

Readers in Alameda were recently invited to share their opinions regarding the functionality of local stop lights. Members of the community offered their experiences and frustrations. Read the original story here on Patch.

One reader, Marti Saxena, sent this letter to Patch's Editor:

"Dear Alameda Patch- You said to send a letter if we were angry, so here it is! I was driving my husband to work today as normal and I just flabbergasted about the county not fixing the down traffic light at Atlantic and Main Street still! It's been nearly a week since it fell off the lamp post! Now, given there is a traffic light to the very left side of the street, but I consider that insufficient because it is a four lane road with another lane yielding right. There is a flashing yellow yielding light, which makes the traffic light pattern even more confusing! This flashing yield is the more visible light when traveling straight. To the newbie drivers this could cause an accident because they would consider just traveling through the signals all together thinking they only had a yield sign! So, who would then be at fault- the county or the citizen? I took a photograph of the broken light. Please make this aware to our readers and followers. Concerned resident of Alameda, Marti Saxena"

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