Description

The traffic signal for E and W bound 55th Street at Market St is still not detecting bicycles waiting in the bike lane, and not serving them a green light unless motor vehicles are also present (as of today at 2:45pm).

This issue was reported previously and marked as fixed (https://en-us.seeclickfix.com/issues/1053830), but was archived before I was able to test it out and determine that the problem is still unresolved. Here is the text from the previous report:

The traffic signal for east and west-bound traffic on 55th Street at Market Street is not picking up bicycles. This was reported before (http://seeclickfix.com/issues/798878), listed as fixed, but continues to be a problem. The issues are summarized as follows:

1) Bicycles appear to be picked up by the traffic signal when they are in the middle of the travel lane, and not in the bike lane. However, when a bicycle is in the bike lane with no other traffic present, or on the line between the bike lane and the travel lane, the light never turns green. Ideally the light should pick up a bicycle no matter where they are in the street (hugging the curb, in the bike lane, in the travel lane, in the crosswalk, ahead of the crosswalk, etc).

2) When this signal detects traffic on one side of 55th Street but not the other, only that side of the intersection gets a green light. There is no reason why the signal should be configured as such, as it not only makes it harder for a bicyclist to cross when the signal does not recognize them, but it also prevents bikes and cars from crossing if they arrive at the signal even just a second after the light changes on the other side. Pleas change this so that both sides of the street always get a green at the same time.

Do NOT mark this issue as resolved until all of the above requests have been accomplished. If the above is not possible then I recommend reverting this signal back to a "dumb", timed phasing so that all road users can be guaranteed a green light, 100% of the time, regardless of light and weather conditions.