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CdA drivers stuck in red-light zone

Pedestrians cross Fourth Street on Sherman Avenue last week. Downtown walkers' use of buttons to change traffic signals affects their motoring counterparts' driving experience by turning lights from green to red. (Loren Benoit/Coeur d'Alene Press photo)
Pedestrians cross Fourth Street on Sherman Avenue last week. Downtown walkers' use of buttons to change traffic signals affects their motoring counterparts' driving experience by turning lights from green to red. (Loren Benoit/Coeur d'Alene Press photo)

So, you just missed that traffic light on your way to work.

And doggone it, when you hit this red, the next one is almost always about to turn red, too.

Grrrrrrr...

Is the city punishing you on purpose?

“I have to chuckle because everyone in Kootenai County thinks that’s what we do,” said Tim Martin, Coeur d’Alene’s streets and engineering director.

“But it’s not true. Really.”

Martin’s defense is based on technology — or lack of it/Steve Cameron, Coeur d'Alene Press. More here.



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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