01-14-2016, 01:54 PM
There will likely have to be a campaign that sets up bylaws preventing vehicular traffic from ever being stopped on tracks. The issue will be that for left turns, there will be a temptation to treat a center-running, bi-directional track as a place to wait for opposing traffic to clear. Drivers will have a green light to go left, but will pull out from the turning lane, and will straddle the tracks. Instead of having their nose outside of the tracks, they will seek to have the nose of their car just outside of oncoming traffic, placing their car on both tracks. The same thing will occur in the example above for the driver coming from the top. He will be required to keep his nose out of the tracks and crosswalk while waiting to turn right and cross both in the process, but instead he will straddle both the tracks and crosswalks. It will not be signals that are disobeyed, but location-of-car rules. We already allow (by convention, not law) several cars to sit in an intersection waiting to turn left. Breaking that bad habit, disallowed as it may be, will be exceedingly hard.