TYLER, Texas — The Tyler City Council on Wednesday approved a contract to fund the retiming of 18 signalized intersections.
Councilmembers voted in favor of a $121,085 engineering contract with Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. for the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) Master Plan Year 3 – Traffic Signal Retiming Improvements.
This contract will provide funding to retime 18 signalized intersections and tasks will include project management, data collection, development of timing plans, implementation and a final report.
The following intersections will be retimed:
- West Northwest Loop 323 at U.S. Highway 69 North
- West Northwest Loop 323 at Silver Creek Drive/Charlotte Drive
- North Northwest Loop 323 at Texas Highway 110 North/Van Highway
- North Northwest Loop 323 at Lion Lane
- North Northwest Loop 323 at Texas Highway 64 West/West Erwin Street
- South Southwest Loop 323 at Texas Highway 31/Chandler Highway
- South Southwest Loop 323 at West Shaw Street
- South Southwest Loop 323 at Robertson Road
- South Southwest Loop 323 at Earl Campbell Parkway
- South Southwest Loop 323 at Briarwood Road
- South Southwest Loop 323 at Spur 364/Towne Park Drive
- South Southwest Loop 323 at Texas Highway 155/Frankston Highway
- West Southwest Loop 323 at FM 2493/Old Jacksonville Highway
- West Southwest Loop 323 at Kinsey Drive
- FM 2493/Old Jacksonville Highway at Rice Road
- FM 2493/Old Jacksonville Highway at Texas Highway 57/West Grande Boulevard
- FM 2493/Old Jacksonville Highway at Three Lakes Parkway
- FM 2493/Old Jacksonville Highway at West Cumberland Road
Also a part of the plan is applying to receive a 2023 U.S. Department of Energy – Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant, which has a purpose of retrofitting high-pressure sodium (HPS) illumination fixtures with LED for energy conservation, according to the city of Tyler.
Retiming of the 18 signalized intersections should be complete by October. The current schedule plans to collect traffic counts at the end of April and the beginning of May.
In year one of the ITS Master Plan, 18 intersections were retimed and a study afterward showed the initiative resulted in delay savings of approximately 231,000 vehicle hours per year. This translates to over $7 million annually in driver delay savings, the city of Tyler said.
In year two, the city retimed 19 signalized intersections, leading to delay savings of about 86,000 vehicle hours per year, which resulted in $2.8 million annually in driver delay savings. Since 2019, 53 of the city’s 149 signalized intersections have been retimed.