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Originally Posted by jhausner
Probably meant the street light. I think some people find it annoying because it isn't entirely timed with the light @ 100th Ave. Also the cross walk (cross King George) is quite long, I think pedestrians have 25 seconds to cross.
It seems excessive right now because there aren't many cars but this will eventually become a main through road so it won't be excessive when you load up cars on the cross street turning in and out and the pedestrian count increases 5 or 10 fold.
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Pedestrians have over 30 seconds to cross - it's pretty much the single longest crosswalk in the entire city. It's further annoying that it isn't timed in sync with the lights at 100th & Fraser and an occasional nuisance coming north on the 96 B-Line.
This is the kind of thing that happens when you have a City that's too lazy/careless to do the necessary engineering/regulating work and then just leaves it all to the developers. No efforts were made to shorten the crosswalk distance - the second bus lane starts right at the intersection even though there is no reason to do so as there is no lane feeding it - it should've been started *after* the intersection to shorten the crossing distance on the north side. The new intersection reeks of pisspoor engineering and once traffic into/out of the complex gets added into the mix, things will be quite messy in the area for both drivers and transit users.
Possibly just another way the City is trying to add congestion now so that the business case-less LRT system being proposed looks like more of an improvement later. (About that, I am really annoyed at how the $4 million put down into the city's traffic control centre that's often in the media included nothing to hold green lights for the 96 B-Line and other buses. TransLink put in a whole such system for the 98 B-Line, from scratch (as in it included the GPS bus tracking system that was not then/is now available system-wide) for $6.2 million, at a time when computers were running Windows 2000. For $4 million and with 2016 technology, it should've been a simple matter to add optimizations to that control centre to help move transit.)
I also want to mention, the segment immediately south of the intersection is in bad need of a repaving and very bumpy, especially on buses (which are often slowing down through the section). With all the construction and paving crews in the area I can't figure out why the City wouldn't have them make sure there's a smooth roadway through and through. Cost-cutting to an extreme.
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