Light Traffic Greets Gates
校园社区今天早上得到了消息，并在很大程度上避免了丹艾伦开车，允许在停车牌以南的南部明确地推出新的交通门。
“This is what we were hoping for,” said a public safety administrator, who surveyed the intersection at Dan Allen and Thurman Drive at 9:15 a.m.
Wolfline buses appeared to be running without delay and pedestrians and cyclists made their way unimpeded. The gates were installed primarily to improve pedestrian safety and reduce traffic congestion.
Members of a local news crew, hoping for visuals of a giant traffic jam, seemed to be the only disappointed observers.
While the stated goal of “improving pedestrian safety and reducing traffic congestion” is a noble one, the implementation has arguably made it more dangerous to be a pedestrian. Before this project, the Dan Allen/Thurman crossing seemed to be one of the safer ones on campus (and certainly one of the safest on Dan Allen). With the addition of this gate and conversion of the traffic signal to an all-red configuration (even when the gates are up), pedestrians seem confused by the lack of signals, leading to them crossing in every direction whenever they feel like it.
If you want to improve pedestrian safety, restore the crossing signs to the way they were. Increase visibility of traffic going down Thurman towards Dan Allen so that people attempting to cross Thurman from South to North don’t have to get in the middle of the street before being able to tell if they’re going to get run down. Add a crosswalk connecting the end of the sidewalk on the North side of Thurman to the sidewalk on the South side of Thurman so that pedestrians aren’t forced to make an illegal and unsafe crossing. Add speed bumps to Thurman between Sullivan Hall and Dan Allen Drive to ensure that traffic actually goes the speed limit (which is 15mph).
Claiming that this project was to “improve pedestrian safety” is disingenuous. The real goal here is to remove traffic from Dan Allen Drive during key hours to keep the buses running on time. While that isn’t a bad thing, achieving better on-time bus performance by creating traffic chaos and pedestrian confusion just isn’t worth it.
我一直在西邓恩的办公室看门。有几个与行人的近几次呼叫。由门停止并且必须备份的汽车被迫通过人行横道备份。行人没有指导，所以他们越过他们想要的任何方向。这没关系，当大门是运作的，但这种行为在5.人们跨越两条街道的情况下继续，无需门或光线才能畅通的交通。对于接近大门并且无法访问的司机也没有指导。If this isn’t your area of campus, or if you’re not affiliated with the campus, how would you know that turning right at the Dan Allen Deck will (now) get you to Friendly Dr. or that turning on to Thurman will get you back to Sullivan Dr.? Furthermore, the signs that *are* there don’t inform drivers that the gate is restricted by card access only. Everything talks about “service vehicles” which is a very broad term at this university. Apparently, access has been arranged for UPS and FedEx, but the driver of the non-affiliated service vehicle that delivers bottled water to my office is supposed to know that his truck isn’t a service vehicle for the purpose of getting through this gate.
The goal was a good one… the implementation not so much.
我现在一直通过丹艾伦超过10年，工作人员不再允许丹艾伦再过7:30到4:30我刚刚在晚上工作的丹艾伦上班，我采取了另一种方式。
I understand the gates.But what is going on with the traffic light signals?The cycles for both intersections are way too long.Also,after hours(say between 9:00 PM and 7:00 AM and weekends)put the lights on flash mode.There is no need to sit at the intersection when there is no traffic.David