McKnight Road Congestion Could Ease With New Adaptive Traffic Signal System

Long-suffering motorists have dubbed it “McKnightmare Road” while dreaming of a quicker commute through the major North Hills artery. PennDOT appears poised to make that dream come true by making an adaptive traffic signal system along McKnight Road operational within a few weeks.

The hardware for the system has been installed and computers are compiling information on commuter patterns that soon should keep traffic from slowing to a crawl, PennDOT District 11 traffic engineer Todd Kravits told KDKA-TV.

“The traffic signals, the computers in those traffic signals are accumulating all the data - the data that they’re going to use to automatically time the traffic signals during the course of the day.” he said.

The new system will be in place throughout the Ross business district. According to PennDOT, the affected intersections include McKnight and:

• The Red Lobster access road.

• Braunlich Drive at North Hills Village South.

• North Hills Village South.

• Siebert Road.

• Patrick Place.

• Ross Park Mall Drive and McKnight Circle.

• Brown’s Lane and Johanna Drive.

• McIntyre Road.

• Peebles Road.

PennDOT already has adaptive traffic signal systems in place in the region on Route 19 near Cranberry and on Route 22 in Murrysville.

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