Is this a make-work project? Is it needed?
this post was submitted on 06 Jun 2025
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It's an experiment in a high pedestrians low speed traffic area.
If it works out well (possible examples: fewer injured pedestrians, lower wait times for everyone involved), it can be expanded to other high pedestrians areas.
It could be a case study for Portage & Main.
Trying to get across any intersection diagonally on foot is super annoying when you need to wait for the signal in both directions.
It's a pretty pedestrian-heavy area. It's probably justified.
I hope so. It seems like fiddling with circuit logic is a quick easy change that may offer some sort of political win so we can say change is happening. It was a lighted, pedestrian area before this.