05-11-2016, 09:25 AM
(05-11-2016, 08:45 AM)Canard Wrote: Yep, huge waste of energy and source of unnecessary pollution and wear and tear with having hat much traffic decelerate, stop, idle and accelerate again, for nothing - not to mention the accumulated time wasted waiting for the light. Agreed it should be an instant-activate pedestrian request (after a manditory timer, if the cycle was just activated previously, of course).
I don't think there are any pedestrian buttons there, one of the non-beg intersections in the region. Visually, it can look bad, but when I'm waiting for the bus and watching, or especially right at the curve, I can see all the cross-Victoria lights synched up. So, as a driver (especially going west), you stop at Victoria instead of a guaranteed stop at Charles or John. When you have the heavy lane-reduction traffic in the afternoon, there's no ability to pump more cars through Victoria when Duke or Charles get priority, and so leaving Victoria open still produces near-identical delays and pollution. What it doesn't do, despite attempts even in the current rush hour mess to do so, is allow traffic to sit in the intersection. As a pedestrian, it's very intimidating and hostile to be crossing at a crosswalk with a driver who caught themselves in the intersection wanting to edge onto the crosswalk and into your path. Some drivers do this, but if King became beg-only and out of sync with the other intersections, this intersection would be filled with cars waiting for downstream red lights to go green.