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Some places have more than just a "head start" light for cyclists and pedestrians. They can be totally different parts of the light cycle where the two aren't green at most or any of the same times. There's a few recently created intersections like that here in Halifax. The bikes pose a greater risk with cars turning right on red since bikes are barreling through the intersection at full speed during their green phase. That means it isn't just a risk of a car hitting the bike, but also of the bike hitting a turning car which at full speed would also be pretty bad. That problem doesn't really apply to pedestrians since they move slowly enough to stop much more quickly and cause less injury if they bump into something. So there's definitely a greater risk.
Our "solution" is to just ban right on red for those specific intersections and have right turns be its own light cycle with forward arrow lights applying to the main lane non-turning lane and a right pointing arrow light for the right turn lane. But having that sort of case-by-case approach means that drivers never get used to not being able to turn on a red and are likelier to either forget/overlook the difference or choose to disobey it since it isn't a cultural norm. |
^ yeah, that’s why its better and much easier to just ban right on red for a whole city.
then hammer drivers who do it in and around downtown and bike lanes, but maybe look the other way if drivers do it on the fringes of the city. |
If anyone is looking for a good book to read, I recommend "The Lost Subways of North America," by Jake Berman. The book looks at approximately 25 metro areas across the United States and Canada and their historical transit systems, as well as their recent history of building new transit networks after most of these cities removed them in the mid-20th century. There are beautiful maps throughout the book. It is very much a sad book, describing where various cities went wrong over the past century. We could have had far stronger and more vibrant cities, avoided countless hours lost to congestion, and prevented tens of thousands of auto fatalities if we made different choices.
https://press.uchicago.edu/.imaging/...0226829791.jpg Photo courtesy of the University of Chicago Press. "Every driver in North America shares one miserable, soul-sucking universal experience—being stuck in traffic. But things weren’t always like this. Why is it that the mass transit systems of most cities in the United States and Canada are now utterly inadequate? The Lost Subways of North America offers a new way to consider this eternal question, with a strikingly visual—and fun—journey through past, present, and unbuilt urban transit. Using meticulous archival research, cartographer and artist Jake Berman has successfully plotted maps of old train networks covering twenty-three North American metropolises, ranging from New York City’s Civil War–era plan for a steam-powered subway under Fifth Avenue to the ultramodern automated Vancouver SkyTrain and the thousand-mile electric railway system of pre–World War II Los Angeles. He takes us through colorful maps of old, often forgotten streetcar lines, lost ideas for never-built transit, and modern rail systems—drawing us into the captivating transit histories of US and Canadian cities. Berman combines vintage styling with modern printing technology to create a sweeping visual history of North American public transit and urban development. With more than one hundred original maps, accompanied by essays on each city’s urban development, this book presents a fascinating look at North American rapid transit systems." https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books...206950010.html |
cabbies are getting fired by robots with no recourse —
The human cost of the gig economy By Tehsin Pala Posted on January 10, 2024 On a typical workday in May 2018, Mohammed Shahabuddin was dropping off his Uber passenger when his world crumbled. After dropping off his passenger, Shahabuddin found himself locked out of his Uber app. An email notification confirmed that he had been deactivated due to a passenger complaint accusing him of drinking and driving. more: https://www.amny.com/news/the-human-...e-gig-economy/ |
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informal commercial passenger airline speed records broken this week due to el nino over the pacific —
A roaring tailwind just hurled a passenger plane at 826 miles per hour Story by Matthew Cappucci more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/new...ur/ar-BB1hjLNt |
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^Par for the course.
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takes out street parking so good idea —
Priority Intersections for Daylighting At Community Board 7's February 2024 meeting, the Transportation Committee will consider whether to adopt a resolution that includes a call for daylighting at most intersections on the Upper West Side. "Daylighting" is the practice of prohibiting parking immediately next to an intersection to increase visibility of pedestrians by motorists (and of motorists by pedestrians). In addition to potentially calling for widespread implementation of daylighting, CB7 is considering creating a list of intersections where daylighting should be a high priority. If you would like to identify any intersections that should, or should not, be priorities for daylighting please fill out this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...fbWsA/viewform |
Nine Maps Show How Britain Is on the Move
Bloomberg, 8 February 2024, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/featu...els-before-hs2 Quote:
https://i.postimg.cc/Prfg84bk/GCx-LEk-YWEAA73-Ki.jpg Image sourced from Will Deakin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WillDeakin1/stat...50764790596048 |
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The last of the three small unused subway tunnels in Cincinnati was sealed off this month:
https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...720&fit=bounds https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...720&fit=bounds This tunnel was built in 1925. It's about 700 feet long. The north portal was sealed sometime around 1965. The south portal doors were vandalized at some point in the 1980s and never repaired, meaning people were free to visit this short tunnel any time they wanted. Two similar short tunnels in Norwood are sealed off. One was sealed around 1975 and the other in 2005. The much longer downtown tunnel, which measures about two miles and has three underground stations, remains intact. It has steel doors that can be opened by city staff for regular inspections. |
well this is good news — :tup:
Pedestrian deaths down nearly 50% in decade of Vision Zero, Adams admin says By Ben Brachfeld Posted on February 15, 2024 … Broadly speaking, cities that adopt Vision Zero strive to entirely eliminate traffic deaths on their streets through policymaking levers and public space redesigns to preclude the possibility of fatal encounters. Since embracing Vision Zero a decade ago, the city has gotten its speed limit lowered to 25 miles per hour, deployed hundreds of cameras to catch speeders and red light runners, and redesigned numerous streets to be more pedestrian and cycling-oriented. City officials believe the interventions of the past decade have directly saved hundreds of people’s lives. more: https://www.amny.com/transit/vision-...n-deaths-down/ https://www.amny.com/wp-content/uplo...0x821.jpg.webp Pedestrian fatalities are down 45% since the city adopted Vision Zero as a policy goal. File Photo by Dean Moses |
So in just a month's time, the newly sealed-off tunnel in Cincinnati has been covered in graffiti. I went down there to take a look at the settling concrete. It's pretty dramatic. They're going to have to "make a decision" in 10-20 years, since this shifting isn't going to heal itself.
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Yeah, that's not insignificant.
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8 states are planning to BAN the sale of gas-powered cars entirely - after Biden unveiled ambitious plans to phase them out by 2032
California was the first state to adopt the plan to ban sales of gas cars by 2035 Electric vehicles made up 7.6 percent of new car sales in the US last year By TILLY ARMSTRONG ASSISTANT CONSUMER EDITOR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM PUBLISHED: 07:57 EDT, 26 March 2024 At least eight states are planning to ban the sale of new gas-powered cars in the next decade - and others are considering joining them. Only zero-emission vehicles can be sold in participating states beginning from the 2035 model year, according to the Advanced Clean Cars II legislation. The rule, which was first adopted by California, means that automakers and dealerships would be banned from selling new gas cars in these states from that point onwards. more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmone...ticle-13237051 |
MARTA announces four new infill stations; will provide connections to the Atlanta Beltline
Only one of the stations is confirmed (Murphy Crossing, which would create a station on the southwest Beltline), but here's a map showing previously proposed infill stations (yellow dots): https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images....P3DMFAK44I.jpg |
I know it is April Fools Day but this is something…
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-...ouse-bill/7845 |
:haha: Can you imagine?
A much appropriate and likely bill in the future will be one barring any naming of anything after that abomination. |
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