Comment on xkcd #2929: Good and Bad Ideas

• Badabinski@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There are many of these where I live. The lights are usually timed so that you just go straight through without having to stop. They're much better than the traditional intersections that came before.

  I will absolutely concede that they're shitty for pedestrians or cyclists, however.

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  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The ones I’ve used time the pedestrian lights with the traffic, so it’s safer for them. Still tricky for peds going across turn lanes.

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• Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They’re usually built over a motorway where there was already two stoplights just to go straight, so …

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