ITD delivers updates to traffic light timing throughout Sandpoint

SANDPOINT — The Idaho Department of Transportation updated the timing of four traffic lights on U.S. 2 down to S. Boyer Avenue last week as part of an effort to improve traffic flow.

The traffic lights on Larch, Cedar and Pine streets as well as on S. Boyer Avenue needed to be resynched to each other after a light was moved from Church Street over to Pine. ITD Staff Engineer Breanna Logerwell, who monitors the lights, said that previously all four lights were running “free,” only optimized for their own efficiency.

"If somebody was trying to get from Larch all the way down to Boyer, they would run into the possibility of having to stop at every single signal,” Logerwell said. “This should alleviate that particular [possibility].”

Logerwell said that the lights were left desynched while