London traffic light system

[jammer139]

Finally London is upgrading the Traffic Light system.

http://www.lfpress.com/2017/10/24/lo...mmittee-briefs

If they do this right; we can finally have a system that encourages the smooth flow of traffic so your not stopping at every red light.

Now it seems the lights are deliberately programmed to be sync'd to go red.

A smart traffic light system can dramatically improve traffic flow and transit times during rush hours and in wee hours of the night.

Please get it right.

[Dupcheck]

Originally Posted by jammer139

Finally London is upgrading the Traffic Light system.

http://www.lfpress.com/2017/10/24/lo...mmittee-briefs

If they do this right; we can finally have a system that encourages the smooth flow of traffic so your not stopping at every red light.

Now it seems the lights are deliberately programmed to be sync'd to go red.

A smart traffic light system can dramatically improve traffic flow and transit times during rush hours and in wee hours of the night.

Please get it right.

Cool, maybe we will not need Red Light Cameras after all.

[K85]

lol, yea right

Originally Posted by Dupcheck

Cool, maybe we will not need Red Light Cameras after all.

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by jammer139

Finally London is upgrading the Traffic Light system.

http://www.lfpress.com/2017/10/24/lo...mmittee-briefs

If they do this right; we can finally have a system that encourages the smooth flow of traffic so your not stopping at every red light.

Now it seems the lights are deliberately programmed to be sync'd to go red.

A smart traffic light system can dramatically improve traffic flow and transit times during rush hours and in wee hours of the night.

Please get it right.

I hope so. I was driving down Southdale (easterly from Wonderbread), and I managed to hit every single goddamned fucking traffic light (there are about a million) past Wellington. Cursing, I was.

[tyeman200]

Good, about time! & I hope the fix the sensors, they are terrible. Half the time you're sitting there forever waiting for the light to change. But another cool idea, I got it from driving in Tillsonburg at night. I'd say from 12am to 6am, have the traffic lights on the main streets flashing yellow, and red for the side streets. I would exclude downtown though on the weekends till about 3am or so.

[CanadianTalk]

The city will be piloting a new traffic-signal system that will give pedestrians a 5 second head-start before the light turns green for vehicles. This is called a leading pedestrian interval, and it will be piloted at Dundas and Wellington.

Other cities such as Toronto have this set-up at some intersections and it has been successful over there.

https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/...A1U1GimRl8aVL4

[haljackey]

I hope right turns on red aren't allowed with that kind of setup.

You could also do a pedestrian scramble- where pedestrians can use the whole intersection for like 30 seconds. You can cross diagonally here while all road traffic is stopped. Maybe too ambitious for London however... you need a lot of pedestrians to make that work best.

[inimrepus]

Originally Posted by haljackey

You could also do a pedestrian scramble- where pedestrians can use the whole intersection for like 30 seconds. You can cross diagonally here while all road traffic is stopped. Maybe too ambitious for London however... you need a lot of pedestrians to make that work best.

I could be mistaken but I thought that London used to have an intersection like that. Possibly at King and Clarence?

[Djeffery]

How old are you people? lol. I don't remember when it was taken out, but I remember very clearly the scramble crosswalk at King and Clarence. Used to use it to go from Wellington Square to the London Centre Arcade, and then over to Novacks and Dr Disc. I know it was in operation back in the 60's, which is even before my time.

Dundas and Wellington is a terrible intersection to pilot this at. What info are they going to get when you have one direction completely closed to traffic (westbound) and both directions of Wellington restricted due to construction at King?

[jammer139]

Hopefully this is part of the computerized light sync system to fix the non stop red lights and needless idling.

[tyeman200]

Originally Posted by haljackey

I hope right turns on red aren't allowed with that kind of setup.

It's a pipe dream. I still see many people making right hand turns off of King Street, even though you aren't supposed to anymore.

[inimrepus]

Originally Posted by tyeman200

It's a pipe dream. I still see many people making right hand turns off of King Street, even though you aren't supposed to anymore.

Well at the one intersection that they have put this in they also made it so you can't turn right on a red.