Cycling in Waterloo Region

[danbrotherston]

Have they actually measured it to carry more cars? I doubt it. 

Miovision does have an installation at Westmount and Glasgow, it was brought up in a twitter thread about that intersection in December: https://twitter.com/RichBettridge/status...8647763968. The data in this thread suggests that the intersection throughput is not optimized.

Whether or not the City is using that data is an entirely other question, but there is some measurement being done.

That's interesting, I did not know miovision had an installation there.

I think the question is moot anyway, or at least, I don't really care...we should be focused on safety, we know the design is unsafe, but we chose to use it anyway and the motivation is better throughput. Engineers who make these choices should lose their professional designations. A structural engineer who designs a bridge to fall down sometimes to improve throughput would lose theirs. Certainly there are fuzzy lines (delays have costs too) but this one isn't...this intersection had this configuration before, and it was changed to 1 through 1 turn lane because it had an excess number of collisions.