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I struggle to see how making a slightly larger roundabout will help improve pedestrian safety and lower the amount of accidents that happen at this spot?
Patrick_27 wrote:I struggle to see how making a slightly larger roundabout will help improve pedestrian safety and lower the amount of accidents that happen at this spot?
Given it is so small and compressed at the moment, I find it means that there is little reaction time. Once you add some distance between the intersections, people will have more time to enter the roundabout or make a better decision.
Patrick_27 wrote:I struggle to see how making a slightly larger roundabout will help improve pedestrian safety and lower the amount of accidents that happen at this spot?
Removes one entry, improves angle of remaining roads, larger roundabout also improves angles, adds dedicated left hand turn for 2 roads, adds pedestrian island.
The above will surely reduce car-car accidents and improve flow.
Pedestrian crossings should be prevented with fences etc and pushed away from this intersection. Eg the new pedestrian island is not very close to the intersection.
Plans don’t mention lights. Talked to one of the council planners/engineers who noted there would be ramping on main road ie part time lights. However their plans make no mention of it. Without ramp lights on main road this upgrade will be an expensive failure.