Seattle adopts 'adaptive signals'

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Joe Copeland Jan 12, 2018

Jan 12, 2018

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                <h1>Seattle adopts 'adaptive signals'</h1>
                <h2><p>Seattle has a plan for South Lake Union traffic: being smart. Or, as the Seattle Times transportation reporter Mike Lindblom writes, traffic signals that constantly adjust to traffic — "adaptive signals" — will go into operation next year on Mercer Street, providing much better traffic flow.

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               <p>By <a href="/author/joe-copeland-crosscut-com/">Joe Copeland</a></p> 
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            <p>Seattle has a plan for South Lake Union traffic: being smart. Or, as the Seattle Times transportation reporter <a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/smarter-signals-smoother-commute-south-lake-union-drivers-will-be-first-to-find-out/?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">Mike Lindblom writes</a>, traffic signals that constantly adjust to traffic — "adaptive signals" — will go into operation next year on Mercer Street, providing much better traffic flow.</p><p>Mercer will be the first of five corridors in Seattle where the signals are installed. Isn't Seattle smart? Well, Lindblom notes that Bellevue has already put the advanced signals at 197 intersections.</p>
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Seattle has a plan for South Lake Union traffic: being smart. Or, as the Seattle Times transportation reporter Mike Lindblom writes, traffic signals that constantly adjust to traffic — "adaptive signals" — will go into operation next year on Mercer Street, providing much better traffic flow.

Mercer will be the first of five corridors in Seattle where the signals are installed. Isn't Seattle smart? Well, Lindblom notes that Bellevue has already put the advanced signals at 197 intersections.

By Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland is the former senior editor&nbsp;for Crosscut, where he has been an editor since 2010. Before that, he was an editorial writer and columnist for the Seattle P-I and editorial page edi