The traffic, not a timer, will now determine how long you will be waiting at the traffic lights at the intersection of Madison Avenue and Maple Street on Sturgeon Bay’s west side. City Engineer Chad Shefchik announced Tuesday that the new traffic lights are operational and vary slightly from the old ones. He says the old lights outlived their usefulness and had to be constantly reset to stop defaulting into flashing mode. The new system will be run off motion-detecting cameras instead of timers to make the traffic flow more efficient.
Shefchick adds that pedestrians can initiate a signal change by pushing a button when wanting to cross over from Maple Street or Madison Avenue. If you do not push the button, the white crossing light will not display. That feature is a typical DOT standard for all new traffic signals, according to Shefchik, who asked the programmer.
