The stoplights at Dukes Ave are a masterpiece of overdesign. If you have so many cyclists jumping them (and pedestrians jaywalking) then there’s something fundamentally wrong with the way they are set up.I’m in Arica, Chile, at the moment for a work gig. There’s a T-junction just next to where I’m staying and it looks a lot like the Dukes/CHR junction. Here’s how it works:if the green light is on for those travelling on the horizontal bar of the T, then cars can go both ways down the horizontal bar. They can also turn down the vertical bar of the T, but they must give way to pedestrians crossing the upper edge of the vertical bar. They also give way to cyclists (not many but some exist here too) using the bi-directional lane. If the green light is on for those on the vertical bar of the T, they can proceed to turn left or right onto the horizontal bar; they need to give way to pedestrians crossing the horizontall bar of the T north-south. Car and cyclists travelling on the horizontal bar are obviously bound by the red lights.The junction is easy, simple, no one has been killed so far and traffic flows.This is the way the rest of the world works. Why does the UK need to engineer junctions with lights only for pedestrians, then only for cyclists is beyond me. Why is the UK the only developed country where pedestrian crossings are either totally absent or don’t have right of way against cars is beyond me.
Francis Sheehan ● 1523d