---- Ann Freiwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I suggested an all red phase for the lights at this intersection. Thus > letting peds and bikes have the intersection to make there moves, then > go back through the car signal phases. But I got no answer from the > city. I guess they did not like that idea. I realize it would hold up > traffic, but this is a big corner for pedestrian traffic, between the > schools, the UW and the athletic facilities located around it, then add > in a regional bike/walk trail, and you gotta start to think about all > red signal phases. > > Just my thought.
It really should have a green phase for the bike path. It is, in effect, a six-way, three-thoroughfare intersection (Regent, Monroe, Southwest). Imagine if a new street were created, and it crossed right through the middle of an existing four-way, two-street, light-controlled intersection. Would they just leave the light the way it is, and let people on that new street fend for themselves? That's essentially what they did with the SWP. And whatever is done, by definition, it would not "hold up traffic". People using the SWP and the crosswalks ARE traffic. The light sequencing as it stands "holds up traffic" for those users. (I know, I know, "save it for the meeting.") --------------- Paul T. O'Leary Chronic Nuisance Madison, WI USA _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
