There are a number of intersections where the traffic control design seems to invite these problems during train crossings. It makes no sense for a bicyclist crossing Williamson street to get to the Nolan bike path to have to wait for the train to clear an intersection they are not crossing. Another similar intersection is East Johnson and Fordem. If you are sitting on the bike-path on Johnson, waiting to cross to get to the Camelot apartments and a train happens to come by, the walk light will not come on until after the train goes by, and one cycle of the light completes.
There are plenty of examples where ped-activated stop lights are dismissed as a solution to a ped problem because motorists will fail to obey the light. Traffic Engineering should use the same logic when the traffic control is likely to be ignored by bicyclists and provide a more reasonable signal regime during train crossings. _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
