General Road and Highway Discussion

[Canard]

I’d also like to know why all the lights around Victoria/Edna/Frederick/Bruce were not optimized for construction. 

Par examplé, there is no need to stop when heading EB on Victoria and turning onto Edna; you should just be able to turn to right. But that’s light spends 3 times longer red than it does green.

The most absurd though is the (former) off-ramp from 85SB to Edna; the closed exit ramp gets a green still!! So so so stupid and inefficient.

Also, while I’m ranting, Charles/Ottawa is a disaster. If you are heading NB on Charles, and want to go straight through you have to be in the left lane lane. The right lane is a right turn only onto Ottawa. But one left turning car holds up everyone. So some people are swerving around around and driving on the LRT tracks. I get why they did this; if the the left lane was a left turn lane, and they made the right lane a combined straight through/right turn lane, then it would be aligned with the outboard running LRT tracks and they would have do a chicane. BUT! this is the exact configuration at King/Allen, so it’s obviously “allowed”.

There is so much room for improvement, and it seems so little desire to make small tweaks that would make things so much better for so many people.