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Does this mean we can violate all the signs in Quebec cause they are all in French? If they can't read English in Ontario, they should go hand their license in. Most if these collisions occur either they only look at the main green or the purposely make the turn to save time. No signage or traffic signal shapes will save you from that.
The Transit signals seem pretty clear to me considering when they are green they show a straight arrow...
Monarch is referring to the fact that Ontario doesn't allow the use of european style transit signals, which are shape based and cannot at all be confused with automobile signals. Instead the MTO thinks that standard (ok they are black) signal heads with a nearby "transit signal" sign work well enough that they don't even allow you the choice.
I have some glaucoma (being 73, soon to get lens replacement surgury). Still can read it, if I squint to "read it" to find out if it refers to automobile or streetcar drivers. Would be worse at night.
Personally I'm biased towards the signals used by ION in Waterloo Region. No need for a "Transit Signal" sign with these...
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They used them under some sort of exception as a trial, the details of which I am not familiar with. It was then not adopted into the standard MTO OTM on lights and signage, which is why Metrolinx or TTC have not used them on any of their projects.
Have you seen the vast majority of ontario drivers? Driver knowledge and skill level is a known and relatively static data point, we could sit around and complain about it... or we could implement a known, proven, well used solution.
In some jurisdictions, they position the traffic signals OVER the traffic lane they allegedly control.
Drove to New York last month and Rochester was full of these. While it may make directions easier, it's a lot of visual clutter. The city looks like junk with all the hanging wires and long poles.
I do not mean over the lane.I mean if you look at the lights and cannot figure out which ones to follow,you should not be driving. I have driven in most provinces and a good number of states, and even biked in other countries. Not hard to know which lights I need to follow. For example, if I am not a transit operator, I should not be following the 'transit' signals..I have always thought once your license comes up for renewal, all drivers must do a written and road test. It may weed out the really bad ones so that stupid accidents stop happening.
