one car per light???

[waterninja]

just got off phone with city of edm. transportation. if you know your way around edm. you learn about certain streets that you can use as "shortcuts" to avoid congested areas. the city seems seems determined to make your commute as diffucult as possible by making "car traps" where only buses can drive through, zig-zag curbs on some streets, huge speed bumps on some streets, and turn only on arrow lights where you sit there in off peak hours with no traffic.
the newest brainstorm is this one car per green light that they have installed on a boullevard not far from my house. city says it is meant to restrict traffic in an exclusive upscale neighborhood. the nice lady told me that they are also installing them in some areas of calgary.
must be nice to be so important that regular citizens can't drive down your block. surprised they didn't just put a gate across this public road.

[Lefty-Canuck]

They better not install those on my street!

LC

[leeaspell]

One car per green light? So it's basically the same as a stop sign?

[waterninja]

Originally Posted by leeaspell

One car per green light? So it's basically the same as a stop sign?

no. you have to wait for the light to turn green while the single oncomming car comes through. what B>S>

[CaberTosser]

People driving trucks aren't affected by this legislation due to the wording used. It only applies to body-on-frame real trucks though, not wannabe's like Honda Ridgelines, those have to abide by the one car per light system. Had they noted 'vehicle' it would also apply to trucks, bicycles, pogo sticks and Segways.

[Lefty-Canuck]

Originally Posted by CaberTosser

People driving trucks aren't affected by thislegislation. It only applies to body-on-frame real trucks though, not wannabe's like Honda Ridgelines, those have to abide by the one car per light system.

Does a Sport-trac or Avalanche count? Thank goodness I drive an f-150!

LC

[JB_AOL]

I have zero problems with traffic calming measures.

Would you like it if you couldn't turn out of your street because traffic was so bad?

There is many places here in calgary that required these measures, as home owners could not get out of their community. Or were waiting for 10-15 minutes to enter the road. Most of this was cured with strategically placed traffic circles and curbs.

I don't necesarily agree with the 1 car per light, but I have yet to see that here, and don't know the specific road (in edmonton), so I can't comment on that.

[bison]

Isn't city living lovely

[alacringa]

I'd bet a significant amount of money that there's an alderman who lives in that street.

[lyallpeder]

I live in an older area with north/south, east/west streets and avenues. One block north of me is a main ave. One block east is a secondary street and three blocks west is a main street. Traffic short cuts 4 blocks down my ave to avoid a left and right turn at traffic lights.I wish we had the anti-short cut zig zags. the city says it's too busy to have parking of my side of the ave.

God forbid, we stop the short cut traffic so I can park on my side of the ave so I can plug in during the winter

[Dacotensis]

I discovered a way to get ppl to slow down to an acceptable 40km while they pass my house and the houses of my neighbours as we all have children.

Park a truck and trailer on one side of the road and a couple of trucks on the other.
Now as vehicles come flying around a corner doing 75, they are forced to slow down to 40, although many don't and continue on at Mach speed.

This traffic calming device costs the municipality and my fellow tax payer a total of 0.00 dollars.
Honestly, I think we should be able to park out RVs on the street all summer. Really choke the road down so ppl just my street all together.

Rember. 0.00 cost to the tax payer with my proposed plan.

[lyallpeder]

Originally Posted by Dacotensis

I discovered a way to get ppl to slow down to an acceptable 40km while they pass my house and the houses of my neighbours as we all have children.

Park a truck and trailer on one side of the road and a couple of trucks on the other.
Now as vehicles come flying around a corner doing 75, they are forced to slow down to 40, although many don't and continue on at Mach speed.

This traffic calming device costs the municipality and my fellow tax payer a total of 0.00 dollars.
Honestly, I think we should be able to park out RVs on the street all summer. Really choke the road down so ppl just my street all together.

Rember. 0.00 cost to the tax payer with my proposed plan.

I like it! To bad it would cost me a parking ticket if I parked on my side of the ave.

[waterninja]

what made this april fools day joke work is that it is so believable.
lefty canuck exposed it in his first post but changed his post to keep the joke alive. thanks to others who thought, or knew that these cameras are used in places that allow vehicles to merge safely onto busy hwys.

[Rdamours]

We already have that here. I watch the 'tards look at the light turn green and by the time the signal from their pea brain makes it to their foot the light has changed.

In most major cities they would be getting the horn for being so slow off the light...or shot at. Here we just let that behavior go unrewarded.

Those lights are usually on the entrances to freeways so you don't get a pile of people stopping at the end of the merge lane looking over their shoulder to see if it's ok to go. I've seen them work in that regard but in the US...

[bobalong]

Originally Posted by Rdamours

We already have that here. I watch the 'tards look at the light turn green and by the time the signal from their pea brain makes it to their foot the light has changed.

In most major cities they would be getting the horn for being so slow off the light...or shot at. Here we just let that behavior go unrewarded.

Those lights are usually on the entrances to freeways so you don't get a pile of people stopping at the end of the merge lane looking over their shoulder to see if it's ok to go. I've seen them work in that regard but in the US...

April fools joke aside, I heard last week, that there is an additional 4-5 second delay on busy intersections because of the amount of people now texting while sitting at a light.

[Big Daddy Badger]

Originally Posted by bobalong

April fools joke aside, I heard last week, that there is an additional 4-5 second delay on busy intersections because of the amount of people now texting while sitting at a light.

Yup... used to be a guy would go years without using his horn...now he needs it at every other intersection.

[catnthehat]

Originally Posted by Dacotensis

I discovered a way to get ppl to slow down to an acceptable 40km while they pass my house and the houses of my neighbours as we all have children.

Park a truck and trailer on one side of the road and a couple of trucks on the other.
Now as vehicles come flying around a corner doing 75, they are forced to slow down to 40, although many don't and continue on at Mach speed.

This traffic calming device costs the municipality and my fellow tax payer a total of 0.00 dollars.
Honestly, I think we should be able to park out RVs on the street all summer. Really choke the road down so ppl just my street all together.

Remember. 0.00 cost to the tax payer with my proposed plan.

It also makes it VERY easy to find your place!!
Cat