{"id":262391626,"date":"2013-04-25T22:33:46","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T22:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=262391626"},"modified":"2013-04-25T22:33:46","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T22:33:46","slug":"study-too-many-drivers-fail-to-look-for-pedestrians-when-turning-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=262391626","title":{"rendered":"Study: Too Many Drivers Fail to Look for Pedestrians When Turning Left"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: My thought is if the problem is too many pedestrians then the should be accommodated otherwise if the problem is sporadic occurrences of pedestrians (the most hazardous) then when the pedestrian signal is called for also make the left turn a separate phase, there should be tolerance for this happening once and a while.]<br \/>\n******************************************************************************************<br \/>\nby Tanya Snyderm Streets Blog<br \/>\nDrivers turning left are a leading cause of pedestrian crashes in urban areas. Where drivers can only turn left with a green left-turn arrow, pedestrians are more protected. But when drivers are watching oncoming traffic for a chance to make their turn, they tend not to be as vigilant as they should to watch for pedestrians. In fact, 5 to 11 percent of drivers don\u2019t look for pedestrians in the crosswalk at all.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nPedestrian advocates also favor a signal phase exclusively for people on foot, such as a Barnes dance, where pedestrians can cross in all directions, even diagonally, and all traffic is stopped.<br \/>\nBut are dedicated signals the solution?<br \/>\n\u201cThe downside of protected or leading lefts is that it adds another phase to the signal, and means that \u2018through traffic\u2019 will sit stopped at a red light longer than if left turns shared the green time with through traffic,\u201d said Gary Toth, a former New Jersey DOT official. \u201cThe more complicated the signal phasing gets, the more that the traffic signal \u2018clogs\u2019 up the intersection.\u201d<br \/>\n,,,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dc.streetsblog.org\/2013\/04\/04\/study-too-many-drivers-dont-even-look-for-pedestrians-when-turning-left\/\">https:\/\/dc.streetsblog.org\/2013\/04\/04\/study-too-many-drivers-dont-even-look-for-pedestrians-when-turning-left\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: My thought is if the problem is too many pedestrians then the should be accommodated otherwise if the problem is sporadic occurrences of pedestrians (the most hazardous) then when the pedestrian signal is called for also make the left turn a separate phase, there should be tolerance for this happening once and a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=262391626\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Study: Too Many Drivers Fail to Look for Pedestrians When Turning Left&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262391626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262391626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262391626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262391626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262391626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262391626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262391626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}