Cycling in Waterloo Region

[dtkvictim]

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Good info. I don't know of many places in the Region that detect bicycles though, and I don't think that ever happens where the pedestrian signal is always activated. I expect in the case of Weber/Victoria that the bicycle signal will always be exactly the same as the pedestrian signal (minus the countdown, and the bicycle yellow activates at the same time as the vehicular yellow) and that the only reason they install them is the meet the legal requirement for a crossride.

This intersection does have a special sequence for emergency vehicles (which come through quite often) where it fairly quickly cycles between both directions for through-traffic 3-4 times while keeping the pedestrian signals red the entire time. I imagine that takes up extra phases on the signal boxes. My initial thought was just that they haven't figured out/decided how to program the bicycles signals to deal with this situation, but surely this happens at a crossride somewhere else in the region already.