运输委员会在哈利法克斯交叉口的按钮上倒退

Pushing理事会的运输常务委员会反对市政当局的交通局，希望在明年摆脱大部分人行道按钮。

The committee met in person at Halifax City Hall on Thursday to discuss a list of information reports that were deferred from a council meeting earlier this month.

其中有一个reporton pedestrian push buttons at signalized intersections that defended the use of the buttons.

库。韦恩·梅森（Waye Mason）将近两年前要求该报告。作为哈利法克斯审查员reported earlier this month:

The problem Mason is trying to solve is one familiar to anyone who walks around the urban areas of Halifax Regional Municipality: you get to an intersection just as the light is turning green, and even though you press the button, it’s too late to change the pedestrian signal. That means you have to wait for the full cycle of the light to legally cross the street, even though the light is green.

“你知道吗？没有人这样做。他们只是走路。汽车有绿灯，没有人来，他们走路。”梅森在周二的一次采访中说。“而且，如果他们被汽车撞到，他们会出现错，因为绿色漫步的家伙没有升起，这意味着他们违背了信号。那很愚蠢。”

At Thursday’s meeting, Coun. Shawn Cleary echoed Mason’s concerns.

Cleary argued the inconsistency of the buttons — having them perform different functions at every intersection — is creating confusion.

他说：“在某些人中，这完全误解了如何行走。”

“They’re either pushing at every single intersection because they don’t know they’re not supposed to or don’t have to, or they don’t push at any intersection and then they’re walking when they don’t actually have a walk signal … and they should be able to walk and have the priority because pedestrians should have the priority over cars at an intersection.”

Cleary质疑代理交通局TASO Koutroulakis关于按钮的价值：

Cleary:如何通过按下按钮才能获得步行信号来使行人更安全？

Koutroulakis:这不会使行人更安全。它改善了交叉路口的整体操作，包括行人，行人不必等待太久。

Cleary:或者他们必须等待两倍的时间，因为他们没有按下按钮，因为这意味着他们没有得到步行信号。因此，它只能改善车辆的操作。对于车辆来说更有效。对于行人来说，这效率较低。But it does make them less safe because if there isn’t a walk signal and a driver is looking and they look at the signal and they see the hand and then they see the pedestrian in a crosswalk, they may think bad things about that pedestrian versus if the pedestrian has the walk signal. So I think, fundamentally, having the beg buttons, doesn’t that make the pedestrian less safe?

Koutroulakis:这完全取决于情况，因为在其他情况下，我们没有按钮，行人仍然在不走路上行走。我已经定期看到自己。为此，行人和驾驶者选择是否违反信号。It’s no different than in the middle of the night if it’s 2 o’clock — I know this is a poor example — but at 2 o’clock in the morning, if a vehicle is stopped at a red light and there’s nobody around, they’re probably going to run that light. It’s a human behaviour piece to all of this.

在会议的晚些时候，梅森提出了一项动议，旨在转换或替换许多按钮（在区域中心和一些郊区），仅用于视觉受损的人的声音信号。他希望标牌突出显示以解释按钮的目的，并在120天内要求在2021年9月之前完成报告。

Koutroulakis said it wouldn’t be easy.

他说：“我将不得不深入研究它，看看我们是否可以在四个月内与您联系。”

He said every intersection is different, but replacing pedestrian push buttons with accessible pedestrian push buttons would cost up to $12,000 per intersection.

运输和公共工程总监布拉德·纳格什（Brad Anguish）对该报告的长期等待负责，但他不确定能在2021年之前完成。

他说：“这是使我们更加紧张的部分，因为您基本上是说要在2021年之前完成这一切。这就是很难签名的部分。”

“It’s very clear to us, that’s the goal. And we’ll come back with this report and talk about the reality of achieving that goal and what it would take.”

The motion passed unanimously.

该委员会还讨论了一份关于限制右旋转红灯的报告。该报告建议不要像蒙特利尔一样在任何地方禁止他们。

And after a discussion around traffic-calming, Anguish agreed come to this year’s budget discussions with another list of school zones eligible for speed humps.

This year, the municipality planned to在七个学校区域附近的10条街道上安装速度驼峰.

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