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Traffic Detector Not Triggering Green Light for All Vehicles ▶ Anerkannt

469 Hancock Street Quincy, Massachusetts • Auf Karte zeigen Karte ausblenden
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Quincy, MA

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Traffic Signal (Lights)

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Beschreibung

The T-junction where the driveway of Hannaford supermarket meets Hancock Street is controlled by inductive loop traffic detector. The inductive loop on the driveway triggers green for sedans immediately but it does not detect bicycles. In order to make a left turn onto Hancock Street, a cyclist must wait for a sedan to come up from behind. This can take minutes to perhaps hours during off-peak hours when there are no sedans leaving the Hannaford parking lot.

Here's the Google Street View of the T-junction: http://goo.gl/maps/FaElg

Note that:
A) the saw cut on the ground is not visible;
B) once a cyclist is on the left-turn lane and stuck with a red light, there is no legal way for him to leave the lane (walking to the sidewalk on either side to press the button is jaywalking, moving over to the right lane before pressing the button is crossing a solid white line).

I suggest:
1) Painting the marking that comes with a R10-22 sign to show where the saw cut is (http://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/htm/2009r1r2/part9/part9c.htm#figure9C07);
2) Checking the sensitivity of the detector to make sure that it will trigger for bicycles, motorcycles and pickup trucks; and
3) In the short term, allowing bicycles and motorcycles to treat the red light as stop sign at that intersection

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