Comment 115757

By Pxtl (registered) - website | Posted December 21, 2015 at 13:09:37 in reply to Comment 115753

I actually think that the new line makes it worse. With the strange diagonal arrowheads that appear to be the new standard for such things an the solid line, the lane actually looks hatched-off at a glance. When traveling at speed, it is not obvious that this is the lane you should be in to get onto the 403, or at all. Only at the very last second does it become obvious what the lane even is. I've seen this confusion many times in drivers at that ramp. They're signaling right coming up King, but brake and then move into the lane at the last second.

The hatch-looking arrowheads are bad visual language, but I assume the MTO is to blame for them and not the City. Signage for the "right lane 403" has not been moved East, though, so drivers are expected to know where they should be by psychic intuition, as the solid line appears right about the same time the sign told them they needed to be in the right lane to get onto the ramp.

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