Comment 105803

By matthewsweet (registered) | Posted October 31, 2014 at 10:09:43 in reply to Comment 105795

I completely agree, the Walk signal should come up by default whenever Young is on the green phase. Experience tells us that when the vehicle gets a green light but the pedestrian does not, it is always confusing for the pedestrian, and 9 times out of 10 the pedestrian simply crosses anyways. I have no problem with this as the main issue for this intersection and it being Nicholas' primary argument.

Regarding the delay in changing the signals, as I mentioned before, consider the pedestrians walking along James crossing Young. They have a signal indication as well. So it is not simply a case of the traffic signal changing from yellow to red, there is also the need to change the pedestrian signal to Don't Walk. So add another 5 seconds (minimum, every site is calculated differently based on geometry) to the required delay. We're up to 10-12 seconds already. That is nearly half the time of your average observed delay. Take into account other factors, traffic volumes on both roads, HSR service needs, etc and I'm not the least bit surprised that the average delay is 26 seconds.

When you were observing the intersection, how many pedestrians walked along James and crossed Young?

By moylek (registered) - website Posted March 18, 2013 at 16:04:11 in reply to Comment 87287

The world will make more sense to you, Capitalist, when you start seeing a world full of people instead of cardboard stereotypes.

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