Plainview signal's timing troubles drivers
Photo credit: Judy Cartwright | The light may be red on this side, but it's green on the opposite side. Phil Trugman says that endangers drivers trying to exit his street, Sylvia Lane, about 100 feet west of the intersection at Old Country Road and the Route 135 south exit ramp in Plainview. (June 19, 2012)
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Let's say you're behind the wheel, waiting to pull out of a residential street onto a busy road. When you see a traffic signal to your left turn red, do you presume oncoming traffic will stop?
If you did so at an intersection on Old Country Road in Plainview, you would be in danger.
At the intersection with the southbound Route 135 exit ramp, the westbound signal remains green at least...
