Comment 106886

By why (anonymous) | Posted December 10, 2014 at 17:33:50 in reply to Comment 106878

I get that if we're going to study the impact of LRT on King then we have to study the impact of a dedicated transit lane on the street to the exclusion of all other traffic. But even if we adjusted traffic light timing and added advanced turn signalling for buses, the data is still useless if it doesn't account for the increased utilization that LRT vehicles would bring and the effect that option would have on the overall traffic mix. Because we only have buses using that lane, it's sitting practically empty during peak periods and infuriating drivers. Even if there were a real way to accurately test how LRT infrastructure on King would affect throughput and I don't think there is, the study has pissed off so many people that we'd be lucky if we could sell any sort of alternate-use lane on King now. When you have people like Pearson going on record and saying how she's got to sit through three light cycles before even getting to the intersection while the bus lane sits empty, you can't ignore that! Because that's what so many people are feeling. It doesn't matter how good an idea is, you still have to sell it. And the first thing I thought of when I saw those signs going up was "Why only buses?" This study should have never been conducted in the first place. Far better would have been to install an HOV lane (buses, taxis, 3 or more riders) which would have eased the transition to an LRT dedicated lane.

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