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Originally Posted by Jay Random
The point is that multi-light waits are caused primarily by volume of traffic, and there isn't that kind of volume in any bike lane.
How the hell did you get that from what I said? Only a complete idiot would want multi-light waits. The point is that the bike lanes are handling much lighter traffic than the general-purpose lanes.
Any intersection where there is a walk light is de facto prioritized for pedestrian traffic – as anyone can attest who has tried to make a right turn on a green light in downtown Calgary during business hours.
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Part of it is that bikes take up less space. In order to have 1 lane of space back log with bikes would need at least 5 and probably 10 times the number of bikes than cars. So from a throughout capacity a bike lane is far more efficient and therefore inferring usage from the lack of multi light waits is flawed.
As far as traffic volumes in summer the only fair way to look at would be to assess average car traffic per lane on all lanes into the core both the high and low volume ones and determine the average cars per lane and then you could evaluate if devoting 4 lanes out of hundreds is reasonable or not.