Intersections and what to do about them
The Gazette claims that a Rosemont intersection named and shamed by Valérie Plante during her election campaign has become even more hazardous as the crossing times for pedestrians in both directions have been reduced.
In another dicey intersection story, the city is going to try to make sense of St-Joseph and Hutchison, not a major corner but apparently the location of some unspecified number of incidents. It doesn’t take much for a road location to be tricky – a bit of bad visibility, unclear signage, a motivation for pedestrians to want to cross where drivers are just speeding up, and pow.
walkerp 09:10 on 2019-06-05 Permalink
I think part of the issue with Hutchison and St-Joseph is that Hutchison shifts to the west above St-Joseph, so it is not a straight intersection. People prefer to bike there than Parc because it is way quieter, but you have to ride against traffic on St-Joseph when crossing. It is a little hairy, though I didn’t realize there were actually incidents.
Spi 12:07 on 2019-06-05 Permalink
That part of St-Joseph isn’t particularly busy, so I’m not sure that removing a traffic lane would increase visibility, The main problem used to be that drivers coming south on parc and that wanted to go east on st-joseph couldn’t turn left so they’d turn right and pull a U-turn at Hutchinson (effectively going in the opposite direction of a one-way street). There’s new signage indicating that you can only go straight, not entirely sure if that’s made things any better.