11-12-2019, 09:35 PM
(11-12-2019, 09:10 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: Update on the pedestrian crossing of University at the LRT: we have previously discussed the fact that the pedestrian signal can be safely permissive while the crossing protection is activated. Today I happened to reach the intersection at about the same time the crossing started activating, and I was walking rather than bicycling so it was convenient to try a couple of experiments.
What I found is that if the pedestrian button is pressed while pedestrians have a red hand, it immediately goes to walking person. If it is pressed during the countdown, the countdown finishes normally and then immediately goes to walking person.
Of course, this is mostly moot because everybody can see it’s perfectly safe because of the train signals, so they just cross against the red, but it’s interesting. Still doesn’t explain why it doesn’t just stay on walking person, but the designers do seem to have integrated the pedestrian signals in a reasonable way given that all pedestrian signals are to be requested by pressing the button.
Peds are required to beg in our region.