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Originally Posted by HockeyIlliterate
But I see no reason to fiddle with traffic light timing and turning options for bicycles at the expense of automobiles, particularly when (i) there are far more automobiles than there are bicycles on the roads; (ii) traffic light timing for automobiles is abysmal; and (iii) optomizing the light timing for cars would likely reduce overall traffic congestion for everyone.
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What's happening with projects like the 7th street cycle track is that through the work of re-engineering the road things like turn advances and signal timing are being tweaked - not at the expense of traffic, just the opposite, they're to off-set or mitigate traffic impacts as a result of the cycle track.
On that particular project, traffic movement was sped up - if anything it was at the slight expense of the convenience of pedestrians as they may have to wait slightly longer at lights while an advance left-turn green is going for instance. On the other hand, pedestrians benefit from not having cyclists on the sidewalk. Seemed like a win-win for everyone.