Earlier this year a cyclist killed at this intersection by a speeding truck (a pedestrian killed too). Now their ghost bike has also been hit.Gumburcules t1_ixal7la wrote
Reply to comment by cptjeff in Earlier this year a cyclist killed at this intersection by a speeding truck (a pedestrian killed too). Now their ghost bike has also been hit. by dhasselhof
>That intersection will always be a clusterfuck as long as you have to wait at a light to get onto the 295 ramp.
Honestly it wouldn't be so bad if assholes didn't block the box on every. single. light cycle.
The traffic design isn't amazing but the bigger problem is selfishness. Both at the intersection in the picture (where people jam themselves into the intersection against the light from an astounding three sides at once) and at the southbound turn where people getting off 295 south make it so only one or two people can make the turn onto the service road/on ramp each light cycle.
cptjeff t1_ixb13j5 wrote
People block the box because getting into the box and beating the light cycle saves them about two minutes. There's simply way too much traffic volume shoved into not one, but two lights. The one thing I could think of doing is to make the ramp two lanes (which means fucking over that body shop, but they deserve it) and allow that right turn lane to bypass the light entirely. The left lane could be allowed to turn right into the outer lane with the light, but the inner lane would be continuous flow. You'd have to merge on the ramp, but that would eliminate any gaps in the flow of traffic on the ramp that the second light cycle causes.
Always expect people to behave in their own self interest. Any system that doesn't account for that will never succeed.
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