Get ready to play red light/green light to get on I-95

Drivers trying to get on Interstate 95 will have to stop on entrance ramps to go faster on the highway.

Starting this summer, the state plans to turn on red light/green light signals near the ends of I-95 entrance ramps in Broward County as part of a five-year plan to add ramp signals to the 24 interchanges from Hallandale Beach Boulevard north to Linton Boulevard in Palm Beach County.

Similar signals have been used for the past decade on I-95 ramps in Miami-Dade County to improve the flow of rush-hour traffic, officials said.

Combined with the addition of express lanes to I-95, the ramp signals are designed to reduce congestion by smoothing out the flow of traffic onto the interstate. The signal plans are currently limited to I-95, in areas where express lanes have been approved, state transportation officials said.

The length of a red light can vary from two to 13 seconds, but officials say most of the time the red light will last about two seconds, to create a separation between vehicles.

The signals stop a long line of cars from trying to merge with the interstate traffic all at the same time.

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