Ontario Traffic Man | 4 minutes to cross the street - Vaughan, ON @OntarioTrafficMan | Uploaded October 2016 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Trying out the pedestrian crossings on the newly-reconstructed Highway 7 in Vaughan Centre.
More info in the blog post: ontariotrafficman.wordpress.com/2016/10/16/neglecting-pedestrians-in-vaughan-centre
This area is supposed to be Vaughan's downtown, so you'd expect that pedestrian delays would be kept as low as possible. But the signal timings reveal that York Region believes otherwise. They provide only enough Walk time to get pedestrians halfway across the street each cycle - even though there is actually a much longer portion of the cycle when one stage of the crossing could display Walk.
This video was taken outside of peak periods (on a Saturday). During weekday peak periods, the delays to pedestrians would be substantially longer due to a longer cycle length.
Trying out the pedestrian crossings on the newly-reconstructed Highway 7 in Vaughan Centre.
More info in the blog post: ontariotrafficman.wordpress.com/2016/10/16/neglecting-pedestrians-in-vaughan-centre
This area is supposed to be Vaughan's downtown, so you'd expect that pedestrian delays would be kept as low as possible. But the signal timings reveal that York Region believes otherwise. They provide only enough Walk time to get pedestrians halfway across the street each cycle - even though there is actually a much longer portion of the cycle when one stage of the crossing could display Walk.
This video was taken outside of peak periods (on a Saturday). During weekday peak periods, the delays to pedestrians would be substantially longer due to a longer cycle length.
