Does Edgewater Have Too Many Red Lights?

If you’re frustrated with the red light situation in Edgewater, you are in good company.

While stop lights are one of the necessary evils of commuting, they don’t guarantee safety for pedestrians or cooperation from drivers.

According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, red-light running is the number one cause of urban crashes. Furthermore in 2013, approximately 127,000 people were injured in red-light related accidents.

In August 2015, the National Coalition for Safer Roads released an interactive safety map that would allow users to see the number of red-light running deaths in their area as part of the group’s ‘Stop on Red’ initiative.

At Patch, we appreciate that our readers and motorists know the stop lights in Edgewater best. We asked you on Facebook how you felt about the red lights in our area. Could Edgewater use more red lights? Are there too many? What intersections need a stop light, or can get rid of one?

Here’s what readers said on social media:

-"Think we're at the max now. Any more and we'll have problems given the amount of traffic all the time now."

- "Need one at Central Avenue and Loch Haven Road!"

- "I don't think we have them in the right places so it's a little bit of both too much in some areas and not enough in others"

- "South River Colony golf course and club house need them BADLY! I would rather sit at a sensored light, than get creamed by a tractor trailor coming around a bend, or having to sit and wait for twenty minutes trying to get out of those neighborhoods."

- "Need left turn arrow at 214 and Muddy Creek Rd at Muddy Creek Liquor Store."

- "Edgewater is too big for the roads running through it. Bad part is there is talk of more development."

- "Less traffic lights and more circles!!!"

- " What's the deal with pike ridge by Safeway? There seems to be a accident every other week at the light or exiting from Safeway that needs to be looked into."

- "Too many drivers consumed by their own need to be ahead of everybody. Speeding, passing on the other side of the yellow line, passing on the shoulder or in lanes meant for those turning (a la 214 and Holly Road), running red lights, generally disobeying traffic laws. All of these are contributing factors to traffic and accidents. We don't need more development or more traffic lights, we need more responsible drivers."

Is there a red light in Edgewater you can’t stand? Is there an intersection that could desperately use a red light? Let us know on Facebook.