04-20-2021, 02:50 PM
(04-20-2021, 02:10 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: Is that King St. is right now proposed to be 2 lanes from Charles St. in Kitchener up to Columbia St. in Waterloo...except for a 20 meter section around one of the most pedestrian dense intersections in the city, where it will become 5 lanes wide for something like 40 meters for no logical reason. When completely rebuilt, it will be plausible that traffic engineers were trying to kill pedestrians...
How different is it from any other intersection with turn lanes? I believe the lanes immediately south of University are northbound left, straight and right lanes; southbound there is a straight through lane plus a bus time point.
That being said, putting some more thought into the design to reduce pedestrian crossing distances would be a good idea. Of course part of my answer would be to separate right turn lanes from the rest of the motor traffic with islands (but still designed with small turning radius to severely discourage excessive speed). Another possibility would be pedestrian scrambles so that right turns can proceed freely during the motor vehicle green, eliminating the need for right turn lanes at all.