08-22-2020, 01:24 PM
(08-22-2020, 12:12 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: Well, I didn't ask that exactly, but I will now. I did however ask if the trail, which carries more traffic than the road, will get green by default, and drivers will need to wait.
Cleanup in aisle 3!
This is a perfect place to do that. There could even be remote detectors a fair distance back so that drivers doing a particular target speed, maybe 50km/h, would get a green just before they arrive at the light (assuming it had been at least a certain amount of time since Seagram had had green time, so the trail doesn’t get starved). And drivers don’t need to press a button, so the impact on them of only giving green when it is requested is lower than the impact on pedestrians of only giving green when requested.
Quote:True...I mean, the bigger question is why is priority so fucked up in Ontario to begin with.
Long history. But still it’s interesting that the traffic engineer training and recruitment pipeline is so far out of line with our needs.