04-09-2021, 04:39 PM
I came across this video on multistage crossings on youtube recently, and while it isn't explicitly about pedestrian islands, it is relevant to the overarching discussion on how hostile we in North America make things to pedestrians and cyclists when they need to cross teh path of car traffic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSnSeyG74fw
The talk about multi-phase signal patterns in the Netherlands is quite illuminating as nothing like that ever gets implemented here. All we got is "everybody goes the one way, then everybody goes the other way", with maybe advanced greens for vehicles because not only is it general practice is to try and avoid multi-stage crossings, but because the traffic engineers are so locked into that patter than they never even look for non-conflicting segments that could be allowed to go, both for pedestrians or vehicles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSnSeyG74fw
The talk about multi-phase signal patterns in the Netherlands is quite illuminating as nothing like that ever gets implemented here. All we got is "everybody goes the one way, then everybody goes the other way", with maybe advanced greens for vehicles because not only is it general practice is to try and avoid multi-stage crossings, but because the traffic engineers are so locked into that patter than they never even look for non-conflicting segments that could be allowed to go, both for pedestrians or vehicles.