Description
Currently if a person who wants to cross this intersection they need to push the pedestrian button to cross the street. Most people do not realize they need to push this button. The placement of them are not conveniently located for pedestrians. Instead of pushing the button the pedestrian signals should be automatically be part of the traffic pattern for when York intersects with both North and South Frontage road. There thousands of people who cross these two streets corners everyday and this little change would improve the safety of pedestrians.
8 Comments
KD (Guest)
Better still, make an automatic pedestrian signal the default, and have drivers get out of their cars and press a button if they want a green light.
Just kidding, but you get the point.
KD (Guest)
As an aside, can anyone explain New Haven's policy of stopping traffic in all directions and then having all pedestrian signals in all directions light up simultaneously? I understand that this could work in theory; but in practice
1) cars turn on red anyway;
2) the pedestrian signals (especially the new ones) are designed such that pedestrians can only see them light up when they are standing face on; i.e. they cannot see the signals diagonally across the road. So unless they are familiar with the way the lights work at that particular intersection, pedestrians who need to get to the far corner have to cross the intersection on the "L" rather than diagonally;
3) but most intersections are timed to leave insufficient time for this, so those pedestrians then have to wait for another full cycle of lights before they can finish crossing;
4) and in any case, the intersections themselves (such as the new one being painted at Chapel and York this week) are striped so as to discourage pedestrians from crossing diagonally.
Does anyone understand the theory?
lbeehner (Registered User)
Acknowledged Department of Transportation, Traffic and Parking (Registered User)
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Reopened Neil (Guest)
Acknowledged TT&P Workflow Inegration (Verified Official)
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