Great video again Eric! It was TOTALLY WORTH IT to do the side map!! I had been constantly flipping/pausing the video to go to Google maps. This time I didn't have to! Revoke right on red for all safety considerations! The have do this in Hamilton in an effort to cut down the huge numbers of pedestrian deaths and its working on those intersections that have it! We need protected intersections though so cyclists and pedestrians can be SEEN and the car/truck drivers have to slow down for turns and can see the vulnerable users. Your point is bang on that nobody can make eye contact with drivers behind tinted/glared windows!!
Agree. Both should be done. About infinity money is put into car infrastructure, it costs basically zero dollars in comparison to make the city safe for pedestrians and cyclists.
I agree 100%. In most of the cases, the 1st driver will, out of impatience, turn right just in front of a cyclist or a pedestrian, but the major danger is the 2nd or even the 3rd driver on auto-pilot following the 1st without even stopping.
The rest of North America needs to take a cue from MTL and NYC then! I know both those cities are very densely populated, but smaller cities could benefit from doing that as well.
Haven’t even watched the video but yes to the title. Well actually no, because we should do both of these things lol. I was driving a van down Golf Links a few days ago and it’s stressful as a driver, even, with all the people creeping through lights making me wonder if I’m gonna be clipping some dumbasses… Right on red is bad for everyone. Just a shitty bandaid for bad traffic engineering.
Absolutely! Right on Red just enables impatient drivers and therefore makes the roads less safe than they need to be. Everything is rush! rush! rush! I don't know how we got into that strange mentally, but if people slowed down just a little, we'd probably have a significant change in both the number of minor collisions and major fatalities.
Great video, just one of the reasons why right on red should be prohibited. I moved to Toronto in june, I’m an experienced bike commuter coming from Mexico City, a very busy city, but I did felt intimidated by those left turns and felt safer taking them as if there were protected left turna for cyclist as you propose. I just don’t see how a kid could make those turns safely.
The signal not changing Immediately to amber and than red for cars to make the bike signal turn green is because: 1. Traffic controllers in the US are dumb asf and still don’t all use pavement loops to detect oncoming cars from 100 meters of the intersection. 2. They have to comply with dumb and outdated traffic signal manuals that require every signal to have a certain green time, amber time and than red clearance time which is pretty much always ridiculously long and wasteful. You should watch some videos about Dutch traffic signals (that’re much more faster and efficient)
Great video again Eric! It was TOTALLY WORTH IT to do the side map!! I had been constantly flipping/pausing the video to go to Google maps. This time I didn't have to! Revoke right on red for all safety considerations! The have do this in Hamilton in an effort to cut down the huge numbers of pedestrian deaths and its working on those intersections that have it! We need protected intersections though so cyclists and pedestrians can be SEEN and the car/truck drivers have to slow down for turns and can see the vulnerable users. Your point is bang on that nobody can make eye contact with drivers behind tinted/glared windows!!
Both. Protected intersections AND no right on red. Eliminating those red light movements helps pedestrians too.
Agree. Both should be done. About infinity money is put into car infrastructure, it costs basically zero dollars in comparison to make the city safe for pedestrians and cyclists.
I agree 100%. In most of the cases, the 1st driver will, out of impatience, turn right just in front of a cyclist or a pedestrian, but the major danger is the 2nd or even the 3rd driver on auto-pilot following the 1st without even stopping.
'Right on Red' is not allowed in Montreal and NYC unless posted otherwise.
The rest of North America needs to take a cue from MTL and NYC then! I know both those cities are very densely populated, but smaller cities could benefit from doing that as well.
Why does Townsend Ave jog south for two blocks just to jog back north?
Haven’t even watched the video but yes to the title. Well actually no, because we should do both of these things lol. I was driving a van down Golf Links a few days ago and it’s stressful as a driver, even, with all the people creeping through lights making me wonder if I’m gonna be clipping some dumbasses… Right on red is bad for everyone. Just a shitty bandaid for bad traffic engineering.
Absolutely! Right on Red just enables impatient drivers and therefore makes the roads less safe than they need to be. Everything is rush! rush! rush! I don't know how we got into that strange mentally, but if people slowed down just a little, we'd probably have a significant change in both the number of minor collisions and major fatalities.
Great video, just one of the reasons why right on red should be prohibited. I moved to Toronto in june, I’m an experienced bike commuter coming from Mexico City, a very busy city, but I did felt intimidated by those left turns and felt safer taking them as if there were protected left turna for cyclist as you propose. I just don’t see how a kid could make those turns safely.
The signal not changing Immediately to amber and than red for cars to make the bike signal turn green is because:
1. Traffic controllers in the US are dumb asf and still don’t all use pavement loops to detect oncoming cars from 100 meters of the intersection.
2. They have to comply with dumb and outdated traffic signal manuals that require every signal to have a certain green time, amber time and than red clearance time which is pretty much always ridiculously long and wasteful.
You should watch some videos about Dutch traffic signals (that’re much more faster and efficient)
Doing the lords work. If only this was a job our cities paid😓