Cones to be picked up faster
La Presse, which has been on something of a toot about road cones being left in place for a long time, has succeeded in getting a promise from Quebec that cones will be removed after 72 hours of inactivity.
mare made a very sensible observation on a recent cone thread here. The upshot will probably be that workers spend more of their time shuffling cones around.
Nicholas 10:43 on 2023-04-24 Permalink
What if when they move the cones off the roadway they stack them, maybe even into a thing built to hold them all on the side of the road? Better yet, for places with frequent closures they can put an arm (this one is used for hurricane evacuation) or a rising bollard, plus a red light they can turn on. Controlled remotely this would pay for itself quickly and be much more responsive.
jeather 14:15 on 2023-04-24 Permalink
I see various closures on Decarie all the time, and yet they manage without letting the cones live there full time.
Reprogramming of red lights would be great. I live near the stretch of St-Antoine that is under construction (again) and, for instance, there’s a light at St-Antoine and Greene that normally has 3 statuses — St Antoine green, Greene southbound green, Greene northbound green (I don’t think there’s an all-red/pedestrians only status). However, the latter two are both blocked, so there really needs to be two statuses: St-Antoine green, and pedestrian crossing. But there isn’t. On weekdays they have someone there to wave people through, or block them because a truck is moving, or whatever. But the rest of the time, it’s just well, gotta wait. And this happens at every light with construction happening — there’s no way to just temporarily change the setup for lights.
Andrew 16:14 on 2023-04-24 Permalink
Last week I made a left from Atwater onto St-Antoine, that same construction site, the same intersection where that guy started running over the signaller. I noticed the flashing green was gone. I assumed they took it away when St-Antoine was closed completely and didn’t put it back when they opened one lane. I think they can change the lights, they’re just bad at it.
jaddle 14:13 on 2023-04-28 Permalink
They seem very bad at lights. All along President-Kennedy, where the bike path detours around the Maisoneuve construction, they’re very inconsistent. At Union, the bike light stops about 15 seconds before the pedestrian light, for no reason. At Bleury, there’s a bike light in one direction (Westbound) that follows the pedestrian light, but in the other direction, the light is covered up by plastic, so cyclists presumably are supposed to follow the car lights – it’s ridiculous, and rather dangerous, since it means there’s no way to actually tell who has the right-of-way. Those intersections have been like that for years now… And there are many places where, with one-way streets, it would be easy to have the pedestrian lights stay on longer when there’s no [legal] way for anyone else to be in the way, yet they almost never do this. I can think of one or two in westmount on Sherbrooke that do, but not any others.