John,
William Clarke Drive is classified as "Other Principle Arterial". As such, an
exclusive pedestrian phase is not allowed as a general rule. That being said,
if pedestrian volumes were really high that could change the story. What that
number is I don't know but consider that the ped phases at Congress and State
in Portland which are lower classifications of roadways have a concurrent phase
even though the ped volume is significantly higher than at Hannaford in
Westbrook. It might make some sense for a blackout sign at our signal similar
to what we have a Main and Bridge.
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On Dec 26, 2017, at 8:56 PM, Dennis Marrotte
<dennis.marrotte1111@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:dennis.marrotte1111@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Re: Advocacy for Hannaford Crosswalk. Should we include
No Right Turn on Red ? Or would that cause more problems.
If the Winter continues like the past two weeks, we do not want to have any
Pedestrians being caught in a bad situation at that Intersection, most
certainly, a young Father or Mother with children crossing WCD, with groceries.
Dennis
On Dec 26, 2017 8:43 PM, "John Brooking"
<johnbrooking4@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:johnbrooking4@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Eric and Ethan,
Hopefully you've noticed some recent discussion on the list about the
pedestrian signal at the crosswalk on William Clarke Drive at Hannaford Drive.
Are you able to give us any initial indication of the effort and process
involved if we wanted to advocate for that to be changed to the type where
vehicular traffic is stopped in all directions while the pedestrian walk signal
is on? (I forget the official name of that.) Thanks for any advice you can give
us.
- John