04-10-2020, 10:53 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-10-2020, 10:56 AM by danbrotherston.)
(04-09-2020, 05:35 PM)Jonny Wrote: I got bored today in quarantine so I decided to try out a protected intersection design at Courtland and Stirling. Kept all the existing lanes and added in a two-way trail connection within the existing curbs just by reducing the lane widths down to 3.3m (the recommended width in the Region's design guidelines). Thoughts?
I'm not sure how you're fitting the bike lanes in, the curb to curb distance on Stirling is only 13.6 meters, which only barely gives room for four 3.3 meter lanes, with no extra space for the bike lane. Courtland has only about 1.5 meter extra space, which might be enough for either a barrier, or the wider bike lane, but not both.
Stirling is way overbuilt and could probably lose a lane to facilitate the bike lanes. Courtland is a bigger challenge, given the short segment, it's probably reasonable to lose the right turn lane from the southbound direction to facilitate the design you propose, Courtland is especially frustrating, because the region rebuilt it, with utterly stupid wide lanes, and then painted "edge lines", which frankly, are just a bad idea, but that's neither here nor there.
My preferred design is to have a controlled crossing straight to the island cross the island, and then cross Stirling to the trail, but that has challenges putting crossings so close to the intersection, regional engineers would outright refuse, I'm sure.