Kitsune
Senior Member
.. and I witness a car make a illegal right from Simcoe to the Harbourfront Centre and get its front end creamed by the streetcar. And even after that - people continued to make illegal right hand turns.
Yeah, I was stopped at a red the other day and a car began to move through the intersection on a green. Cyclist coming towards me ran the red, car fortunately stopped, cyclist continued on her way, oblivious. Darwin Award candidate.It's funny...I was biking along the trail and politely cautioned another bicyclist that that very moment was not a good one to run the red light. She proceeded to tell me to f* off, entered the intersection and came so close to being hit by a car with a protected left turn that she ended up falling over anyway.
I am starting to see why drivers are running the red left turn signals. Driving Westbound I noticed that the placement of the left turn signal isn't in the drivers' line of sight. I believe drivers are looking ahead, seeing a green light, and assuming they can inch forward as they would do at any other left turn. It isn't until they pass the stop line that they notice the left turn signal, if at all.
The signals need to be aligned so they are all directly over the roadway, and not over the streetcar tracks and bike path.
That being said, I can finally say I am one of the people who got confused driving along Queens Quay! Heading Westbound through Bay, where the transition between a 4 lane road to 2 lanes happens, I moved into the right lane to pass a cab that was trying to turn around. Went through the intersection, only to realize I was no longer in a traffic lane, and the cars behind the cab had passed through and occupied all of the space in the actual lane, which left me stuck on the right overtop a painted out lane. Oops!
Didn't realize the right lane ends and only the left lane is straight through.
Pay close attention and you'll be fine, whether it's lane markings or signs directing you to trains.
A lot of people here repeatedly state that all drivers have to do is read the signs and think about. Given the complexity of the system, the poor design, it's no wonder drivers repeatedly get confused. Now it's just a matter of convincing all the stakeholders that A) the design is bad and B) the traffic signal rules set out the province are completely inappropriate for a roadway of this complexity and just make things worse.Thanks for regurgitating what I have said multiple times in this thread.
Im pointing out that I can see why people aren't getting it, since the same issue keeps occurring. Clearly, telling people to pay attention isn't quite doing the trick.