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except for footway level entry tables
I put up with these every day as a pedestrian (Archway end of Holloway Road) and they're the absolute worst for ambiguous priority. Let's build a thing that encourages pedestrians to cross without stopping to look, but which drivers still have absolute legal priority over! Awful things.
The highway code is being changed so pedestrians waiting to cross will have priority over turning vehicles. (Peds already have priority if they've started to cross - the change gives them priority while waiting to cross.)
So the new junction treatment reflects the new rules. Pedestrians should be able to wander across at will.
Would be even better if they painted a zebra crossing at every junction, but you'd have years of uncertainty before the massive painting project was completed - what does it mean if a junction has no zebra crossing, yet?
My experience is that car drivers crossing pavement level junctions (like the one at Magee St to the A3) behave more politely than they do at other junctions.
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The highway code is being changed so pedestrians waiting to cross will have priority over turning vehicles. (Peds already have priority if they've started to cross - the change gives them priority while waiting to cross.)
So the new junction treatment reflects the new rules. Pedestrians should be able to wander across at will.
Yes, but in practice that won't happen quickly.
Would be even better if they painted a zebra crossing at every junction, but you'd have years of uncertainty before the massive painting project was completed - what does it mean if a junction has no zebra crossing, yet?
Well, I'd rather the law was such that crossings wouldn't have to be painted. On main streets, yes, but the more signing and lining and complication you introduce into non-main streets, the more you increase the impression of a motor traffic environment. The best thing is simple streets that just look like simple streets.
My experience is that car drivers crossing pavement level junctions (like the one at Magee St to the A3) behave more politely than they do at other junctions.
The problem with continuous footways isn't the effect on the side street, but that on the main street. It increases motor traffic capacity and reduces driver attention. The caution when turning is dealt with by the filtering, no further measures required, and the impression of side street junctions is important for the functioning of main streets.
Oliver Schick
One thing to consider is the pressure to implement these schemes with as few interventions as possible, due to cost, time and the required experimental nature of them. Stuff like tidying up one-way systems can be done at a later date.
Also, "keep cells as small as possible" is fine on paper, as long as you're happy to condemn one of the roads where you split a large cell to becoming a main road. If you're worried about journeys within the cell being too long, that can surely be solved by making the sectors/quadrants/whatever* within the cell smaller.
(* I've heard some people refer use "cell" to mean both the thing surrounded by main roads and the divisions within that, which makes discussing these things even more fun)
I put up with these every day as a pedestrian (Archway end of Holloway Road) and they're the absolute worst for ambiguous priority. Let's build a thing that encourages pedestrians to cross without stopping to look, but which drivers still have absolute legal priority over! Awful things.