So, I encountered a #TrafficSignal phasing this morning that I don't remember having noticed before, and am wondering how common it is.
The setup: There's a bidirectional sidepath along a stroad. Drivers turning left off the stroad onto a side street have a permissive left while sidepath users have a walk signal. This is a problem, but is not the problem I'm focused on rn...
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This morning, I noticed that the sidepath users get an LPI at this side street, so we get a 5-second head start on the traffic that's running parallel to us on the stroad.
BUT only the traffic on the near side of the stroad is held; the traffic on the FAR side, from whence the left turners come, gets green the exact moment the sidepath users get the walk signal.
Here's the site, for context
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The map linked above shows the stroad running roughly east/west. The sidepath is on the south side of the stroad. The side street in question comes in from the south.
Just before the LPI, the sidepath users have a don't walk signal and the people turning left from the stroad to the side street have a green arrow. Fair.
But the exact instant the walk signal comes on for the stroad users, the green arrow switches to permissive yellow. This sucks but is standard practice in #NorthCarolina
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Ryan