05-18-2019, 09:38 PM
(05-18-2019, 08:49 PM)ijmorlan Wrote:(05-18-2019, 05:50 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: Frankly, it's the engineers fault, people are always going to be selfish and break the law for their own convenience, you don't have to enable them by unnecessarily and obsessively putting in roll curbs.
Do we have any good guesses as to why they are so obsessed with roll curbs?
At corners I can imagine a reason — give vehicles a bit of leeway in making their turn. Bogus, of course, because it says that if vehicles can’t drive properly, it’s A-OK for them to intrude into the space supposedly reserved for pedestrians, but from a certain uncaring and ignorant perspective, it makes “sense”.
Between intersections, though, I really don’t understand it at all — who is supposed to be rolling up the curb and into the LRT lane? Nobody, ever, for any reason, as far as I know, right?
I really have no idea. It's bizarre. Engineers have made plenty of pretty weak excuses for the uptown bike lanes but even those generally don't apply anywhere else and I've never had the chance to really push for answers for any of the other contexts.
FWIW, they even used roll curbs for part of the sidewalk in uptown, and surprise surprise, its the only sidewalk in uptown where I routinely see cars parked.
It is completely bizarre to me.