In response to today's Breeze article on new computerized traffic signals across the South Bay, an LA Observed reader wrote to the Breeze reporter, Gene Maddaus:

I noted in the article that it mentioned Imperial Highway and El Segundo as two of the areas newly added to the coordination system. I noted this with much curiosity because the past two mornings, I have been wondering to myself, along with thousands of other commuters, "Why in the world is the 105 (westbound) off-ramp at Nash Street in El Segundo backing up almost to the 405 at 7am?!?!?!"

I work for Raytheon in El Segundo and have used this off-ramp for the past four years. On a consistent basis, it normally takes me about one or two light change "cycles" to exit the ramp and go southbound on Nash street. On Monday and Tuesday of this week, it has taken me an average of 10-12 "cycles" to exit this ramp, or about 8-12 minutes LONGER to exit the freeway! The main reason seems to be that the westbound 105/Nash exit ramp light "timing" has been shorted and the Imperial Hwy light "timing" has been increased. Because of this, the traffic for this ramp has backed up almost to the 405/105 interchange by 7am. Normally at this time, there is no backup. At the same time, the traffic on Imperial Hwy is running smoothly, so much so, that there are no cars going through the intersection for about half the time the light is green!

So here is my question, while the "engineers" are monitoring Imperial Hwy through El Segundo, are they also monitoring the traffic on the freeway off-ramps exiting onto Imperial Hwy, such as the Nash exit????? From my observation, they have greatly increased the Imperial Hwy
"flow", but they are causing large backup on the 105 westbound.

I could not notate anywhere in your article about who to contact regarding this situation. So I figured that I would simply write you.

Regards,

Arthur Medrano

Maddaus replied that the intersection of Nash and the freeway is not one of the computerized intersections.