08-22-2016, 09:11 AM
Francis is open end-to-end, Duke only from Francis to Victoria. Using it as a detour will be slow, because King/Francis has a signal change, and heading eastbound you'll have to wait for the Duke/Francis light to turn left.
Hopefully this will alleviate some of the bad driving. Nearly got clipped twice yesterday when drivers waiting at Duke southbound turned left onto Victoria on a red light, once when I was crossing north side, the other when my dog was walking wider than he should have been on the south side and the left-on-red turn was also wide enough to nearly clip him. Marked three near hits for me as a pedestrian (Victoria and Weber) by illegal driver moves in only a few days.
For those with an eye for detail, can anyone make sense of the post at King and Francis on the TD Bank corner? If you look at the green-corner pole on the other side of Francis, holding up cantilevered traffic signals, it's still a pretty small base where it is mounted into the sidewalk. If you look across to the LRT tracks, the catenary support poles are of a different colour and much larger diameter. The pole at the TD corner is not for catenary wire, and doesn't have any signals cantilevered off of it needing support, but it's the largest diameter post in the entire intersection. Are support wires of some kind likely to run from the top of this over to the catenary curve from Francis to King, to support the turn?
Hopefully this will alleviate some of the bad driving. Nearly got clipped twice yesterday when drivers waiting at Duke southbound turned left onto Victoria on a red light, once when I was crossing north side, the other when my dog was walking wider than he should have been on the south side and the left-on-red turn was also wide enough to nearly clip him. Marked three near hits for me as a pedestrian (Victoria and Weber) by illegal driver moves in only a few days.
For those with an eye for detail, can anyone make sense of the post at King and Francis on the TD Bank corner? If you look at the green-corner pole on the other side of Francis, holding up cantilevered traffic signals, it's still a pretty small base where it is mounted into the sidewalk. If you look across to the LRT tracks, the catenary support poles are of a different colour and much larger diameter. The pole at the TD corner is not for catenary wire, and doesn't have any signals cantilevered off of it needing support, but it's the largest diameter post in the entire intersection. Are support wires of some kind likely to run from the top of this over to the catenary curve from Francis to King, to support the turn?