05-23-2020, 03:18 PM
(05-23-2020, 02:33 PM)Bob_McBob Wrote: https://www.waterloochronicle.ca/news-st...-official/
Has the region's director of transportation ever actually walked anywhere? Because it sure doesn't sound like it. As someone who primarily drives, ground loop triggers are in no way as annoying and inconvenient as pedestrian beg buttons, nor do I have to touch a high traffic surface during a global pandemic just to legally proceed through many intersections. The icing on the cake is van De Keere claiming the mayor of Guelph literally received a million emails in opposition to the change, when it was just a sarcastic comment on Twitter.
The article didn’t sound as bad as I was expecting.
In particular, I think it’s hard to make a case for running regular cycles at an intersection where a very low-traffic road meets a high traffic road.
In other locations, the pedestrian buttons are clearly inappropriate. An obvious example is King St. at Willis Way., where the pedestrian signal should always activate.
In still other locations, the lights should just sit on walking person in all directions until a motor vehicle comes and triggers a green. Detectors could even be placed well in advance of the intersection so that in the absence of other traffic, a vehicle travelling at the intended speed would reach the light just after it turns green and wouldn’t have to stop at all.