Northfield / 85 Exchange upgrades?

[danbrotherston]

1) sure IF a u-turn drivers can keep to the leftmost lane. And I just can't see the right turn drivers anticipating this
2) Roundabouts are a different topic, agreed
3) safety first
4) Right turn on red in a bad policy?  Is that new?

2) They're a different topic, my point was to give an example of a traffic device that's relatively uncommon being successfully adopted in the region.

4) In general I mean, right turn on red is dangerous for pedestrians because drivers are often not looking for them (they're busy looking for a space in traffic) and they often obstruct the crosswalk while doing so, and is generally a more dangerous maneuver than turning right on a green.

This hasn't really been made an issue of in most of the country except Quebec, which started allowing them relatively recently (outside of l'Île de Montréal).

http://spacing.ca/montreal/2010/08/19/no...treal-mtq/

Apparently it's caused the deaths of at least 5 people since it was permitted.

However, traffic engineers, ever excited to improve traffic flow like them because they give you more capacity for free in the intersection....at the expense of safety of course.