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Originally Posted by timun
Drivers in this city are spoiled brats who have no idea how good they've got it. It's very easy and quick to get around by car.
Hard disagree with you w.r.t. Vancouver's flashing greens vs. our pedestrian crossing lights. Those amber lights are easy to miss and drivers often ignore them. Or worse yet: pedestrians will stroll out into the roadway without pushing the button. They don't have to push the button and actuate the lights to have the right-of-way: the lights are just a courtesy to let the drivers know they want to cross. Whereas Vancouver's signalized intersections give the drivers a heads-up that "Hey, be careful here, you have the right-of-way but at any moment a pedestrian can hit the button and change it red," and the pedestrians don't have the right-of-way to cross until the vehicles get a red light and the pedestrian signal has changed from a "don't walk" to "walk".
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Agreed... except I don't think I've ever seen a pedestrian use one in Vancouver. I think they too don't know what those things mean.
I've seen plenty of pedestrians look across and run because that's what the flashing green light means to them. The car perpendicular to the major roadway gets a confusing amber or red (?) flashing light. And the fact only Vancouver has it is probably an explanation as to whether it's effective.
Calgary would have stop/yield with a pedestrian light.
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Originally Posted by calgarygeologist
I don't come across many traffic circles on a daily basis and in general I have no issue with them but the City of Calgary needs to start making round traffic circles. That is my biggest problem. Stop making circles with changing radius or with weird points or other features. Those idiots just need to make a simple circle.
This is the worst one that I have ever seen:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/LvstyXrmxjdVMaWZ9 |
There's one by Dalhousie station, it's not a complete circle.
There's a bunch on 14th(?) north of Panorama. WTF is going on there? It probably should be a traffic circle, but instead you have turn offs and weird arc loop turns or something? I think the design at least eliminates lights.
That being said, it's kinda weird, but I also wouldn't say it's completely stupid like lights at a traffic circle or serious planning and road design issues that create traffic havoc. It's a little inefficient IMO, but not ineffective or ridiculously inefficient.