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Originally Posted by Buggys
Hmmm, I think that the main reason to keep the Dumaurier and Queensview traffic lights is so that vehicles coming out from those streets turning left actually have a chance. Each of those streets lead to businesses & potentially lots of people (Giant tiger, baseball diamond, multi-unit housing, bus garage, Leon's, etc).
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Please re-read my original suggestion:
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Originally Posted by roger1818
I wonder if once complete they will extend Ramsey cres. to Pinecrest (using the current busway entrance that will be unnecessary) so that they can block off the intersection of Dumaurier and Pinecrest (or at least remove the traffic lights there).
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Dumaurier would be blocked off from Pinecrest so there would be no left turning traffic there.
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Originally Posted by Buggys
Ideally, those streets could be modified to align as 1 street & share 1 traffic light.
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That is what I am suggesting and you are objecting to. You can see that I even suggested removing a second traffic light and only have one instead of three:
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Originally Posted by roger1818
It would be nice if they could get it down to 1 intersection, but that isn't going to happen.
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Originally Posted by Buggys
For the 2 intersections closest to Pinecrest station (Transitway/Pinecrest and Iris/Greenbank), the lines are drawn so that pedestrians's traffic lights only go 3 ways instead of 4. However, both these intersections are where there would likely be most pedestrian traffic (due to Pinecrest station on the Transitway, and the stores around the Ikea plaza), and vehicles just coming off the highway ramps (where they were just used to faster speeds and no pedestrians).
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Oh, I thought you said the intersection of Iris and the Transitway.
For the Queensway/Transitway and Pinecrest intersection, the LRT plan shows a pedestrian underpass, so hopefully that will help, though it looks like it will do a funny loop, so it may not be optimal.
For Iris and Pinecrest, that is a messy intersection and having pedestrians safely cross on the north side of the intersection would be difficult. This isn't really affected by my suggestion either way though.