General Road and Highway Discussion - Printable Version +- Waterloo Region Connected (https://www.waterlooregionconnected.com) +-- Forum: Waterloo Region Works (https://www.waterlooregionconnected.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=14) +--- Forum: Transportation and Infrastructure (https://www.waterlooregionconnected.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=25) +--- Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion (/showthread.php?tid=335) Pages:
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RE: General Road and Highway Discussion - tomh009 - 10-12-2017 (10-12-2017, 08:18 PM)jwilliamson Wrote: Are photo radars really so expensive it would be cheaper to have people moving them every day than just buying enough for every location? I do believe so. In any case, even with non-moving camera, someone needs to collect the images (I don't believe the current generation of cameras can send them unattended over the Internet). But I could be wrong, it's been known to happen before! RE: General Road and Highway Discussion - timio - 10-12-2017 I've seen two examples of mobile photo radar in the past 13 months: in Scotland they had a well marked van in a layby at the bottom of a straight downhill section, and in Banff a RCMP SUV was in the median of the Trans Canada with it's hood up, making you think it had broken down. Two very different ways of accomplishing the same thing. RE: General Road and Highway Discussion - tomh009 - 10-12-2017 (10-12-2017, 10:20 PM)timio Wrote: I've seen two examples of mobile photo radar in the past 13 months: in Scotland they had a well marked van in a layby at the bottom of a straight downhill section, and in Banff a RCMP SUV was in the median of the Trans Canada with it's hood up, making you think it had broken down. Two very different ways of accomplishing the same thing. A recent article in Ireland said they were spending EUR 17M to run a fleet of 50 photo radar vans. The ticket revenue was about 7M so the net cost was EUR 10M per year, or about C$300K/van/year. If the goal is to target fixed areas such as school zones, fixed cameras are far more cost-effective. RE: General Road and Highway Discussion - danbrotherston - 10-12-2017 (10-12-2017, 10:31 PM)tomh009 Wrote:(10-12-2017, 10:20 PM)timio Wrote: I've seen two examples of mobile photo radar in the past 13 months: in Scotland they had a well marked van in a layby at the bottom of a straight downhill section, and in Banff a RCMP SUV was in the median of the Trans Canada with it's hood up, making you think it had broken down. Two very different ways of accomplishing the same thing. Or as people would complain "a cash grab"...I find that phrase so frustrating. RE: General Road and Highway Discussion - SammyOES - 10-12-2017 (10-12-2017, 05:10 AM)Canard Wrote: It almost sounds like we’re okay with those people on 401 in Toronto* who, in rush-hour jams, stay in the right lane, and blast up on-ramps every chance they get to bypass ~10 cars, then cut back in as if they had just joined the highway! People at the front of the line (unless they’re like me, and watch their rear-view mirrors like a hawk) have no idea what’s happened and think “Oh I’ll let this nice person in who has just joined the highway!”, having no clue that they just jumped in front of everyone else, rewarding their bad behaviour. I think there's a miscommunication. I'm not talking about this. To be clear: I think its fine for traffic coming onto the highway to go to the end of the lane before merging. I don't think its ok for someone to merge into the on-ramp from the highway in order to jump in front of people. My objection isn't moral or anything like that, just that its illegal and dangerous because the on-ramp traffic isn't necessarily expecting the move. RE: General Road and Highway Discussion - SammyOES - 10-12-2017 (10-12-2017, 03:52 PM)JoeKW Wrote: I've had people fly past me on the shoulder of the rural part of highway 7 to cut ahead a few spots. It's insane. You mean where the road goes from 2-lanes to 1 (or I guess 4 to 2)? I've never understood the people that do this when its just one giant line of traffic anyway. I REALLY don't get it when I see it in the Winter and they're speeding through snow, ice, and slush to do it. RE: General Road and Highway Discussion - JoeKW - 10-12-2017 Yah single lane each way with gravel shoulders. RE: General Road and Highway Discussion - Canard - 10-13-2017 How about on Maple grove, heading West, at Beaverdale? Light is red. Line up of cars in the left lane, right lane merges about 100 m after the intersection. See it every day - everyone queues up nicely in the left lane and then someone will jump up and sit at the red light, and then gun it past everyone. So is that okay because it’s “using the capacity”? RE: General Road and Highway Discussion - panamaniac - 10-13-2017 Isn't that precisely the intention of that design? Without the "gunning it past everyone" aspect, of course. RE: General Road and Highway Discussion - Coke6pk - 10-13-2017 (10-12-2017, 02:24 PM)Bob_McBob Wrote: Photo radar expected in Waterloo Region within next few years Photo Radar was approved in MAY? Where was I when this was announced.... [MIND BLOWN!] Coke RE: General Road and Highway Discussion - Coke6pk - 10-13-2017 (10-13-2017, 08:53 AM)panamaniac Wrote: Isn't that precisely the intention of that design? Without the "gunning it past everyone" aspect, of course. I would "assume" the design was more for vehicles turning right onto Maple Grove from Beaverdale... but even if its not "fair"... I don't think it's illegal. I encounter the same situation every day on Fairway just past Pebble Creek where it goes to one lane. Coke RE: General Road and Highway Discussion - Canard - 10-13-2017 It’s a bad design that leads to agressive driving and stress. RE: General Road and Highway Discussion - Markster - 10-13-2017 The point of that design is to have greater capacity through the intersection. 2 lanes of cars starting from a standstill has less throughput than one lane of cars at speed. I don't feel particular guilt over taking the soon-to-disappear lane. Once we're past the intersection, space opens up, and there's room to merge. Sometimes, people are so deadfast about all queueing in the through-lane, that the entire queue does not make it through the intersection in the light phase. If they had used both lanes, they would clear out the queue. They may need to go slow on the far side to sort back into a single lane, but they will make it through. RE: General Road and Highway Discussion - danbrotherston - 10-13-2017 (10-13-2017, 10:48 AM)Markster Wrote: The point of that design is to have greater capacity through the intersection. 2 lanes of cars starting from a standstill has less throughput than one lane of cars at speed. I don't feel particular guilt over taking the soon-to-disappear lane. Once we're past the intersection, space opens up, and there's room to merge. Sometimes, people are so deadfast about all queueing in the through-lane, that the entire queue does not make it through the intersection in the light phase. If they had used both lanes, they would clear out the queue. They may need to go slow on the far side to sort back into a single lane, but they will make it through. Unless the throughput limiting factor isn't the intersection but the road past the intersection. Even if roads "should" work this way, this is one of those "people aren't going to just" things. We have to change something to expect behaviour to change. RE: General Road and Highway Discussion - creative - 10-13-2017 I believe the design intent is to allow cars to pass a car or cars that are turning left. |