Karen Gunthner wrote into Traffic Inbox this week regarding the intersection of County Road 455 and Old Highway 50 in the Clermont area of Lake County.

Here's what she said:

You have to see this intersection. It was likely built decades ago when there was little traffic. There is just not enough waiting space to accommodate traffic and you have to cross oncoming traffic coming from the opposite direction.

When I talked to Gunthner late last week, she was fearful for the future of the intersection.

"It's illogical," she said. "Probably in the 50s, when it was built, it made perfect sense because there were very few cars."

Gunthner said that one particular part of the intersection has made traffic unmanageable and unsafe during peak times.

"There's a yield sign that you have to cross over into oncoming traffic," she said. "You don't know whether that person is going to go right or left, in which direction, and you basically have to guess or just sit there. Then you've got traffic backing up and there's only enough room at the yield sign for two, perhaps three cars to squeeze in. And people are backing up along 455 waiting to turn left."

Gunthner said the confusion at the intersection causes near misses all of the time, even saying that she "personally witnessed, almost witnessed, an accident" recently.

The road also harbors several potholes that Gunthner claims she is forced to drive into when there are large trucks along the roadways. This is because the roads are too narrow, and the trucks can sometimes take up more than half of the road.

"I have a 16-year-old," Gunthner said. "I'm scared for him to be driving here."

We contacted Lake County officials, who said that the plans were to initially install a new traffic signal in the next couple of years. However, plans were changed when they learned of plans for the Turnpike Authority to widen Florida’s Turnpike in the area which would affect that intersection.

As such, that intersection will fall under the Turnpike's jurisdiction where there is a very good possibility that the intersection will be replaced with a roundabout. However, that could be several years before any relief could be seen and no immediate timetable was given.

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