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ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
(01-13-2016, 09:55 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: Having said that, I speculate that people have trouble really internalizing what it means to have a transit lane. I speculate that they don’t think of it as a traffic lane, so don’t properly check, explaining all those left-turn collisions that we see on YouTube. I wonder if a proper BRT would have the same problem.

Well, how many traffic lanes with traffic coming up from behind are there to your left when you're making a left turn? None, I hope. I mean you're not making a left turn from the any lane but the leftmost, are you? (in Canada)

In the (near!) future, you might have one train lane to your left that does come up from behind you, adjacent to you, on parts of the system where the trains are in the middle of the road instead of the edges.

Drivers aren't necessarily used to shoulder-checking to the left when making a left turn, which I always presumed was the cause of those frequent left-turn collisions. (which in turn I presumed were the reasons for changing some streets along the corridor into right-in-right-out-exclusives)
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RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit - by chutten - 01-14-2016, 01:07 PM
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