Have you ever been at a stoplight and watched car after car get the green light while you're sitting there for what seems forever?

A Bay News 9 viewer asked our real time traffic expert Chuck Henson to look at where that's happening in Pasco County.

It's at Old County Road 54 and Little Road in New Port Richey.

According to Virginia Smith, the two streets that cross Little Road are on different light cycles.

"So it's a lot of waiting for all these light changes, and I think that if these two -- Villa Entrada, Old CR 54 -- were synched up together, it would cut down on a lot of wait," Smith said.

Once traffic stops on Little Road, those waiting on Old County Road 54 are given the green light, including a protected left turn arrow.

You'd think the same would be true for Villa Entrada -- that the left turn traffic could go at the same time. But as Little Road goes, Villa Entrada waits.

Smith would like to see a designated right turn lane on Old Country Road 54 at Little Road. As it stands now, thru traffic shifts as far to the left as possible to create a right lane where one doesn't exist.

"It does allow enough room for a car, a truck could not get through, but for a car to squeeze through," she said. "So we try to help people get through, because at times that road will get so backed up that people do what they can. But it is an issue."

Chuck checked in with Pasco County traffic management to see if there were any future plans to modify the intersection. It turns out, the uneven pattern in the signal is by design.

Traffic volumes are uneven in the east/westbound direction, with the eastbound left onto Little Road being the heaviest. The traffic patterns have not changed over the past several years. The signal phasing processes higher volumes of traffic for the cycle length and reduces conflict.

In the future, if the amount of cars waiting at the light on Villa Entrada increases, the county would start a traffic study to find out if any changes in the signal are necessary.