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Old Posted Dec 23, 2023, 6:50 PM
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Bike lanes tend to be to the right of the main road lanes (between them and the sidewalk), and there are some intersections where there are bike signals in which bikes have the right of way while the main road lane has a red. So if people in the main road lane are turning right on red it can create conflict with cyclists going straight.
In NYC there are a lot of intersections where the crossing light leads the traffic light in order to allow pedestrians and cyclists a head start on crossing before vehicular traffic begins to turn into the intersection. But in cases where the right turn on red isn't banned, this is a moot point. Even if the pedestrian light does precede the traffic light, drivers can still legally turn through the crosswalk. So that goes back to my original point, it's not that bikes have made right turn on red more dangerous, right on red has always been a pretty dangerous and anti-pedestrian rule.
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Old Posted Dec 23, 2023, 7:45 PM
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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.
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Old Posted Dec 23, 2023, 8:04 PM
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^ 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.
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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.


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"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
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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.


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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


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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:

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Old Posted Feb 10, 2024, 5:22 PM
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Nine Maps Show How Britain Is on the Move
Bloomberg, 8 February 2024, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/featu...els-before-hs2

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When he started playing with Great Britain’s train data, Will Deakin didn’t intend to create a monster.

Last month, the trained physicist and IT worker for the UK’s Network Rail decided to indulge himself by making some maps. The result is a striking illustration of modern-day Britons on the move.

Over a weekend Deakin collected several open datasets about travel on the national rail network and combined them into a series of some 2,500 maps, one for every rail station, depicting 894 million journeys. The width of each line shows the frequency of travel between two points. So the result shows a rough approximation of how millions of people used the country’s near 10,000 miles (16,000 kilometers) of track in the 2021-2022 financial year.

Not surprisingly London and the southeast sit at the core, and all lines seemingly flow from there.

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Deakin says his maps also show that “it is possible to do mad journeys.” One person bought a ticket from Bodmin Parkway in Cornwall in the southwest to Thurso in the far north of Scotland, a 23-hour, 900-mile-long adventure requiring an overnight stay, for about £160 ($202).

Another passenger bought a ticket for a 14-hour-long journey from Dorchester near the south coast of England up to Glenfinnan in Scotland, perhaps to enjoy the experience of riding over the Glenfinnan Viaduct, which features in the Harry Potter movie series. Another hardy traveler bought a ticket between Larbert, a small town in Scotland just west of Edinburgh, and Shanklin on the Isle of Wight nearly 500 miles south. That journey requires as many as nine train changes in just 10 hours and then a ferry trip across the narrow Solent strait to the Isle of Wight.
There is a depository which produces maps from every single journey made from each of the 2,500 stations in England, Wales and Scotland: https://github.com/anisotropi4/kingf...ain/station.md. Excludes metro networks like the Underground.


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:




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.
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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.


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Pedestrian fatalities are down 45% since the city adopted Vision Zero as a policy goal.
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Old Posted Mar 5, 2024, 3:54 PM
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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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