General Road and Highway Discussion

[ookpik]

One-way streets are very unfriendly to people on foot or bike. Wide one-ways encourage speeding. The reason people aren't seen to be walking on these streets is because it's so unpleasant. 

One way [sorry about the pun] to mitigate that is with "green wave" traffic light timing. That's done now but the implementation is abysmal. 

First there are no signs to indicate that lights are timed so it's futile to go faster than the posted speed limit. 

Second there are exceptions like the lights on Bridgeport and Bluevale and also at Ellis that don't participate in the wave. So a lone car on those side streets can stop all traffic on Bridgeport and disrupt the wave timing.

Third there's little or no provision for pedestrians/cyclists to cross. Consider where the Laurel Trail. There's a button operated light where it crosses Erb. But at Bridgeport we're left to cross 3 or 4 lanes of speeding traffic.