| Traffic Signal Maintenance
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The overall objective of signal control is to provide for safe and efficient traffic flow through intersections, along routes, and in street networks.
A traffic signal can provide one or more of the following benefits:
• Improve the orderly movement of traffic
• Interrupt heavy traffic at intervals to allow pedestrian and side street traffic to cross or enter the main street traffic stream
• Increase the traffic-handling capability of the intersection
• Reduce the frequency of certain types of accidents
Whether or not a traffic signal is needed, its installation will probably have the following negative impacts:
• Increase delay to major traffic movements
• Increase frequency of certain types of accidents (principally rear-end accidents)
• Reduce freedom for motorists to control their own progress
If an intersection really needs a signal, these disadvantages will be offset by the benefits just listed. If however, a traffic signal is not really needed, its installation can have the following adverse effects:
• Excessive delay to all traffic movements including those the signal may have been installed to help
• Unnecessary frustration for motorists, possibly resulting in disobedience of the traffic signal
• Undesirable diversion of traffic through neighborhoods
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