Sign of the times?

[Boyd]

Was driving through Medford today and I noticed that a traffic light is going up at the intersection of Stokes and Tuckerton Roads. Now that has always been kind of a scary intersection, but to me that stoplight seems to signal yet another step in the suburbanization of the area.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=39.832969,-74.784161&ie=UTF8&z=12&om=1&iwloc=addr

 

[Trailhead00]

That always was a scary intersection. I have known it my whole life as "5 points" but the intersection lost its 5 points about 13 years ago. My parents always referred to it as Pipers Corner and I have seen that on old maps as well. Hate to say it, but that intersection needed a light years ago.

 

[Boyd]

I'm sure they make the determination for traffic signals based on accident frequency. Yeah, I remember the first time I drove through there in 1993 - it scared me. But there aren't any other traffic signals in that general area that I can think of until you get to Tuckerton and 206 (I think that one just went in a few years ago also).

It is still called Pipers Corner on the USGS topo map:

http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=39.83282&lon=-74.78454&size=l&u=4&datum=nad27&layer=DRG

 

[Teegate]

Great! Another light to sit at

Guy

 

[Boyd]

Yeah, I'm wondering why stop signs wouldn't get the job done? The intersection of Atsion and Jackson is much safer now that it's a 4-way stop.

 

[Teegate]

Did not know that either. I don't go that way much anymore.

I am still trying to figure out all the new 3 and 4 ways stops all over my town.

Guy