That location could be significantly improved by making the curb that separates the northbound motor vehicle lane from the LRT lanes higher and extend right up to the pedestrian crossing. It currently ends about 5.5m before the pedestrian crossing, pretty much as it would if left turns were to be permitted. Then additionally put in a bollard or even a short (4m) section of additional curb in line with the curb on the other side of the pedestrian crossing. None of this would conflict with vehicles turning left from Agnes onto King but it would make it significantly harder to violate the left turn prohibition.
One could even consider forbidding all left turns at the intersection, in which case the curbs on both sides of the LRT tracks could continue through the intersection, being interrupted only for the pedestrian crossings. Looking at the road network in the area, it is obvious that this would not be a significant imposition on car traffic, which could make the turns at Wellington.
Given the number of crashes at this specific intersection, the above options absolutely should be studied and an appropriately designed variation of them implemented. Messing around with minor tweaks to the signage or some such would be a dereliction of duty.
The suggestion to bury the LRT is just a complicated way of saying it shouldn’t have been built at all, given the available resources, although if the idea is just that it should rise up from passing under the railway line a little further north (maybe between Andrew and Central Fresh) then that is nowhere near as silly as the suggestion that the whole thing should have been a subway.
One could even consider forbidding all left turns at the intersection, in which case the curbs on both sides of the LRT tracks could continue through the intersection, being interrupted only for the pedestrian crossings. Looking at the road network in the area, it is obvious that this would not be a significant imposition on car traffic, which could make the turns at Wellington.
Given the number of crashes at this specific intersection, the above options absolutely should be studied and an appropriately designed variation of them implemented. Messing around with minor tweaks to the signage or some such would be a dereliction of duty.
The suggestion to bury the LRT is just a complicated way of saying it shouldn’t have been built at all, given the available resources, although if the idea is just that it should rise up from passing under the railway line a little further north (maybe between Andrew and Central Fresh) then that is nowhere near as silly as the suggestion that the whole thing should have been a subway.