Posted Apr 24, 2012, 6:45 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Vancouver
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Even if the "scramble" only happens once every few cycles, it is better for pedestrians. For other cycles you'd have the same setup as now, where pedestrians can walk along parallel with the cars. In the worst case you do your two-stage crossing, and in the best case you walk across a diagonal during the scramble cycle. This is how it works at Yonge and Dundas in Toronto.
By "every 4 cycles" I guess they mean it would be East-West/NS/EW/NS/scramble -> repeat?
The car traffic comments for that story are particularly silly because Spring Garden Road is not a major traffic artery aside from transit. If you are in a car and in a hurry you're better off taking a different street, which makes sense. Pedestrian-oriented commercial streets should not be used as traffic arteries.
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