07-24-2017, 09:51 AM
We were talking about beg buttons last week, and coincidentally Raise the Hammer had a post the other day celebrating the removal of beg buttons from several fairly urban intersections in Kirkendall and Beasley.
Some of the links were quite informative. This one explains a death in Ottawa at an intersection along a street whose beg buttons operate in myriad different ways. This one explains the many different ways beg buttons can operate (including not doing anything at all).
I'm a proponent of no-right-turn-on-red in urban areas. I think it should be a low threshold of foot traffic that results in walk signals defaulting to coming on for every green cycle. Some of the intersections we've talked about in this thread are very urban and only getting more foot traffic as the years go by: beg buttons do not make sense in those cases at all.
Some of the links were quite informative. This one explains a death in Ottawa at an intersection along a street whose beg buttons operate in myriad different ways. This one explains the many different ways beg buttons can operate (including not doing anything at all).
I'm a proponent of no-right-turn-on-red in urban areas. I think it should be a low threshold of foot traffic that results in walk signals defaulting to coming on for every green cycle. Some of the intersections we've talked about in this thread are very urban and only getting more foot traffic as the years go by: beg buttons do not make sense in those cases at all.