10-10-2017, 09:33 AM
(10-10-2017, 08:46 AM)Viewfromthe42 Wrote: If you have lived around that intersection during rush hour, you will have noticed that cars turning from Caroline NB/SB onto Erb St EB/WB don't follow their lanes very well. In each direction, cars will turn illegally wide, cutting the throughput by half or more. When it's turning EB, both sides can complete their turn on the red and aren't in the intersection as much to block anything, but when a left-turning to-WB-Erb car gets caught, it can jam the whole intersection. Since people haven't smartened up about that intersection, even without LRT, I wouldn't be opposed to removing the left due to the traffic issues it causes. Now, Caroline is the primary supply for Erb from the North, and FDB from the south, splitting the loading a bit better.
As far as I can tell, hardly anybody knows that they can turn left SB->EB on a red. They just sit there waiting.
Of course, the whole mess could be hugely simplified by eliminating SB straight-through traffic (turn left at FDB), right turns from Erb (turn right at FDB), and right turns NB->EB (use FDB), as well as left turns NB->WB (use FDB). Then the intersection of Caroline and FDB just becomes a bend in the road, except for a driveway to Waterloo Town Square, and Erb and Caroline reduces to a place where the road crosses the tracks (plus the left turn SB->EB, which could just yield to Erb St. traffic). Of course the intersection at FDB would need minor upgrades, in particular more left turn lanes, but there is space for that.