06-15-2020, 10:49 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-15-2020, 10:50 AM by danbrotherston.)
(06-15-2020, 09:34 AM)clasher Wrote: In Kitchener they've painted green lanes through the intersections on Queen's Blvd. (Westmount and Fischer-Hallman), but none of the turn boxes. I'm pretty confident riding in traffic but no way am I gonna park my bike in the intersection like that. The Queen's Blvd. bike lanes are so dirty right now it's almost unsafe to ride in them... they need to drive a supersucker truck along the lanes and vacuum them clean. The ones they use to suck up the curbside leaves should work fine.
Anyway, this Columbia/Phillip intersection looks like an attempt to make a protected intersection with no actual protections. Whatever they're smoking I'd like to hit that pipe.
I think they are quite explicitly not doing a protected intersection, they have only created boxes for two stage turns, they are separate things, bike boxes for two stage turns exist all over NA unlike protected intersections.
The question of protected intersections were raised when this was proposed, but the region was unwilling. The City of Kitchener wanted to do a protected intersection in their pilot at Belmont and Glasgow but the region put the kaibosh on that too.