[wsmac] More info on WCD/Hannaford intersection

  • From: John Brooking <johnbrooking4@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: wsmac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 20:42:55 -0400

This is interesting. I reached out over the weekend to a Facebook friend in
California who is a retired traffic engineer, about our intersection. He
found an older Google Street View photo from before the 2011 redesign which
showed a crosswalk with solid yellow paint in it, and two signs about
watching for pedestrians. We wondered why DOT changed that. Perhaps they
thought adding the pedestrian signal was enough?

He also said, regarding an exclusive pedestrian phase (one which stops car
traffic in all directions): "Lot of considerations go into adding an
exclusive ped phase: Spare capacity, coordination, compliance, desire
lines, ped volume, alternative configurations, etc. Most likely a traffic
engineer would favor simply moving the crosswalk to the other side of the
intersection."

Eric has reached out again to the DOT to ask when we might expect their
recommendations. I let him know our next meeting is the 19th.

[image: WCD-Hannaford Pre-2011.png]

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