It does not surprise me that there are fewer accidents on the trail involving left-hand turns as noted in a Gazette story. Did they take into account how many fewer people are using our main thoroughfare for getting through town?
If everyone stayed off the trail how many accidents would there be? I avoid the trail like the plague so the back streets like Dawson, Inglewood, Liberton and even Ray Gibbon/LeClair Way are on my map.
The “protected” left-hand turn is not a bad idea but the system here is regressive. When I was 22 in 1984, Los-Angeles had protected left-hand turns. What was and still is the system there? All left-hand turning clears. So the green arrow stays on until all the traffic is done turning, not three or six cars like here.
So 30 years later we can’t have a system at least as good? No, we would rather spend tax money on the latest and greatest photo enforcement contraption. And we want to add the LRT to the trail? Yeah sure, let’s pretend that we need that too.
Tony Gull, St. Albert
