Carson, Good Morning:
Its early in the Morning to answer your question - but that is a Very
Critical Question. I can not answer for John.
Thank You
Dennis
On Tue, Dec 7, 2021, 5:37 AM Carson Wood <carsonlwood@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Was that audible signal telling you to cross?
*From:* wsmac-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <wsmac-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> *On
Behalf Of *John Brooking
*Sent:* Monday, December 06, 2021 8:35 PM
*To:* wsmac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Subject:* [wsmac] Walk signals and green left turn arrows
I'm really beginning to be of the strong opinion that pedestrians should
*never* be given a walk signal at the same time that parallel car traffic
has a green left turn arrow. This is the situation we've discussed many
times at Hannaford Drive. Today I had someone almost not stop for me at
William Clark Drive and Mechanic Street, in the same kind of situation. I
had the walk signal, crossing WCD from the neighborhood side towards Main
Street, and in this case the driver was coming towards me from Mechanic
Street, turning left across the crosswalk. No reason they shouldn't have
seen me, it was daylight (though cloudy and misty), and there was no other
traffic between them and me. Yet I had to stop and hold out my arm and
stare them down to make sure they saw me, and eventually they did. (And I
was even using a crutch because of a knee injury last week!)
I think the problem is simply that the left green arrow makes it too easy
for drivers to assume they have the all clear, and don't have to look out
for anything. It's a lack of awareness and thought. I'm not optimistic that
this is a fixable behavior, short of just not placing the both of them in
that situation in the first place.
