09-20-2017, 05:05 PM
(09-20-2017, 04:58 PM)timc Wrote: Because there wasn't enough thought put into designing the road for how people actually want to use it?
I'm sure that something better could have been done, but as it is, the left turn lane is too short and would back up into the other lane.
Why couldn't the road have been widened near Erb Street to give a longer left turn and right turn lane?
My idea was actually to disconnect the south leg of the intersection entirely. All Caroline St. traffic would go via Father David Bauer. Coming from the west along Erb, all traffic would continue on straight, while all southbound Caroline St. traffic would turn either right or left. In other words, it would not be an intersection anymore as far as vehicular traffic was concerned — just a place where westbound traffic could U-turn easily.
This would allow a lot of space to be given back to pedestrians and cyclists, and would massively simplify the intersection, especially as to the interaction with the LRT — it would really just be a place where the road crosses the LRT (the left turn does not interact with the tracks anyway, so it still wouldn’t under my idea). It would be effectively the same as the University LRT crossing as to traffic control, with the added minor detail of the left turn.