07-04-2017, 08:42 PM
Resuming this conversation from the Ion thread:
Can anyone point me to an evidence based study that shows that lanes narrowed using edge lines slows traffic down in a statistical sense? I have searched without luck.
After seeing the King at Allen example I started noticing them in my travels, like this one on Westmount:
and seem to be used enough around town that they must still be apart of the local traffic calming toolkit.
Are regional staff actually on record stating that they would not use edge lines to narrow a lane?
(06-12-2017, 12:44 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: Yes, Markster's description is helpful, although regional staff have said that they would not paint an edge line under such circumstances....for this reason specifically....but it seems that message hasn't been dispersed so widely yet.
As to the question, it has many answers ranging from nobody to everybody.....*sigh*....it's extra pavement to make the road wider, but then we realized that wider is actually bad in some ways (like safety) so we put paint down to make it appear narrower to try and slow down drivers.
Frankly, if people want to scream about government waste, how about paving a 5 meter wide lane than trying to make it appear narrower by putting down paint.
In practice the cities have concerns about fitting a plow down a 3.5 meter wide lane with curbs on both sides, so minimum widths are set. I mean, I'd argue we should keep narrower, cheaper, less wasteful, less dangerous lanes and simply buy smaller plows, but apparently not. C'est la vie.
Can anyone point me to an evidence based study that shows that lanes narrowed using edge lines slows traffic down in a statistical sense? I have searched without luck.
After seeing the King at Allen example I started noticing them in my travels, like this one on Westmount:
and seem to be used enough around town that they must still be apart of the local traffic calming toolkit.
Are regional staff actually on record stating that they would not use edge lines to narrow a lane?
Everyone move to the back of the bus and we all get home faster.