I completely agree with the comment about the ped crossing light only allowing a biker to get as far as the island with the right turning traffic coming through shortly after you arrive. I use this intersection a lot so I knonw to stop as I know the light will change and I will loose my r.o.w. before I complete my crossing. But many inexperienced riders use this intersection due to the trail access and they will not know that those right turning cars from JN Drive will be rolling soon. I am actually surprised more crashes do not happen because of the light timing. Ann M. Freiwald, ASLA
________________________________ From: Tim Wong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 6:21 PM To: [email protected]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Bikies] Re: John No Lane and Williamson-Blair I don't know if/when it's going to happen, but I heard about a year ago that that intersection was going to be reconfigured to make the turn onto Williamson a hard (90-degree) right rather than the modified free-flow right that it is now. It's better than it was before the earlier reconstruction (circa 1981, date of the "mass flat tire"-in, when 200 bicyclists rode from the Library Mall and all experienced flat tires right at that intersection during rush hour). Old-timers probably remember the blind corner on the very narrow sidewalk with the gigantic telephone pole blocking the way. "No nation can preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare." --James Madison, April 20, 1795 >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 7/11/2007 4:55 PM >>> I have also wondered at this intersection why the walk light isn't timed such that peds and cyclists can complete crossing from the north side of Williamson to the south side of Williamson in one cycle. By the time a person reaches the southernmost pedestrian island (there are two at that intersection), the crossing lights turn red and the right-turn-onto-Willy-from-Nolen motor vehicles get a green. If the cycle was reset to delay the "green"ing of the right-turn signal by, say, five seconds, it would allow cyclists and pedestrians to cross Willy in one fell swoop, rather than being stuck on an island (and becoming tempted to jaywalk).
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