Globe: Palais Royale Parking Lot Finalized

[interchange42]

I'm glad the Palais Royale is up and running again - they have done a good job fixing it up.

I am not convinced that sticking questionable lights on major arterials has a net calming effect. In this particular case it shouldn't be triggered too often.

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[spmarshall]

I'm not convinced a traffic light here would calm traffic either - especially when Lakeshore is an important limited access arterial at this point. On urban streets it makes more sense to calm traffic, and I don't even think that traffic lights are the best calming feature anyway. If you really wanted to calm traffic, then you'd have street parking and a road built for lower speeds - then, ironically, you wouldn't need the median parking lot.

And like I already said, there's no need for that traffic light anyway - the bridge is right there.

 

[Ontarian1976]

The Lakeshore is already pure gridlock for several hours a day. It couldn't be any more "calm".

 

[Archivistower]

You guys could be right about the traffic light, and the fact that parking on the street could be just as calming, if not more.

However, Ontarian, I suspect that in the hours when people might be going to the Palais Royale, the Lakeshore wouldn't be gridlocked or becalmed.

 

[Ontarian1976]

I think a parking light there would probably just speed traffic up - people would speed up to try and make the green or beat the amber light. Down there you can easily see way down the road, and there aren't a lot of other things to slow you down - so speeding up to beat the light would be easy for drivers to do.