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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
It was a pretty short merge lane starting from a near dead stop - or often from a dead stop considering it is a heavy pedestrian area (which is a recipe for disaster when you have motorists intent on getting up to speed.
Now it's a dual right on green only. In the before time it didn't take much straight and LH traffic to back things up to where you couldn't make it to the merge lane anyways.
I suspect this is a thing where it feels way more annoying than it actually is. Overall intersection function is marginally different (probably slightly better for some movements and slightly worse for others) while safety is significantly improved
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I've been driving this route for 32 years. Never found the previous transition from 24th heading west to Crowchild to be a problem. There is so much room to have made the merge even better than it was but they took it away. It was a very simple crosswalk to navigate as a pedestrian because you were only looking one way at one lane. During the busy hours traffic now backs up significantly further than it used to because there is at least two minutes added to the intersection. It was immediately noticeable after the change.