102 Ave is completely closed between 104 St and 102 St, so I hope they'll begin hooking up the VLW line to the VLSE line sometime this winter or spring. The sidewalks on both sides of 102 Ave are still open, pedestrians can access the Atrium restaurant.
 
Edmonton is filling out nicely with alternative modes of transportation. I don't expect it to be finalized with what is already under construction -- I see several aerial trams in Edmonton's future, a river conveyance, an expansion of the Radial Railway and extensive fingering of MUP and bicycle routes throughout the City. If we continue to propose solid ideas and projection of future possibilities the City will "get there" in a leadership position with exceptional character and artful build-outs to its credits. However, we should not be willing to accept these "candy-cane lane" 6-storey constructs as moving us closer to the utopia we are all dreaming of.
 
Please, everyone, submit these on 311 or email Jennifer from Marigold here: jennifer.sheehan@marigoldinfra.ca

I’ve been fighting with them about the same issue on 95ave and 156. Takes 2 minutes for the full cycle to go around. Cars often clear the intersection in less than 20 seconds and then sits empty while everyone idles cars and pedestrians freeze.
 
The_Cat said:
I wish these intersections could have left turn restrictions during certain times. For example, 109 Street at 104 Avenue Westbound could have no left turn restrictions from 3:30-6:00 pm.
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A big hard NO.

Either have left turns or no left turns. Having left turn restrictions during certain hours of the day is what confuses drivers, who proceed to wait until they can turn left anyway, pissing off other drivers and pedestrians (looking at you, 101 Street at Jasper Ave).
 
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Better signal timing fixes this. Agreed with Gronk, driving downtown is such a mess in the mornings because drivers ignore the banned left turns from 7-9am. People who want left turns banned all together are just silly and likely never drive anywhere ever. Goodluck achieving that, people will revolt if that happens, even if only along 104 ave.
 
J_gordo said:
Better signal timing fixes this. Agreed with Gronk, driving downtown is such a mess in the mornings because drivers ignore the banned left turns from 7-9am. People who want left turns banned all together are just silly and likely never drive anywhere ever. Goodluck achieving that, people will revolt if that happens, even if only along 104 ave.
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The entire planet does well without left turns except for North America. They are absolutely useless, dangerous, make traffic worse and serve no beneficial purpose.
 
ChazYEG said:
The entire planet does well without left turns except for North America. They are absolutely useless, dangerous, make traffic worse and serve no beneficial purpose.
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I’ve heard left turns characterized as a North American thing a few times on here and I struggle to see how that’s true. From a quick non-comprehensive streetview search, they seem to be permitted in most places (Spain and Brazil were the exception from where I looked).

I do agree we should restrict them a lot more than we do, especially when LRT is in the median or there’s no room for turning lanes (75 street I hate you) but I don’t think saying only we do it is accurate.
 
^ Plus (as a point of humor) left turns are allowed in all of these countries: the U.K., Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, India, Japan, South Africa, Thailand, Pakistan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya, Guyana and all of the former British colonies in the Caribbean and Oceania. as well as Macau and Hong Kong. Correspondingly, none of these countries have a ban on right-lane turning. Left-hand turning for most right-lane driving countries has more to do with local restrictions than national bans. Most of Europe, for example, does not ban left turning as a national law, but local municipalities within those countries may do so in terms of traffic organizational matters.
 
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