Normally green means “you can go, don’t worry nothing in your way”, of course when everyone obeys the rules.
In Canada, green means “well you’re allowed to go but there is still traffic crossing your way” which literally removes the single one reason why traffic lights were invented in the first place. Going left in Canada is an exercise in futility. First you have to deal with cars from the other side going straight on. So you drive to the middle of the crossing, then wait for those cars to clalear. But wait, there is more! Now you have to deal with all the pedestrians that also are crossing. Meanwhile the light turned yellow for a full two seconds, before turning red, and you’re still stuck in the middle of the crossing. Finally the pedestrians have cleared and after blocking the entire intersection for other traffic, now coming from left and right, for a full 5 seconds, you can finally continue to the left.
Each red - green cycle takes a good minute, and per cycle only one car can go so if there are 30 cars in front of you, waiting to make a left turn, you’re fucked for the next half hour.
Who ever came up with this system should be lines up and shot. If he’s dead already, dig him up, shoot his corpse and bury him again.
It’s beyond stupid and dangerous.
As a pedestrian, you always have to run and look around you to be sure you won’t be run over by some distracted driver, as a driver you are in a constant full panic mode to try and not murder pedestrians. It’s a shitshow
Traffic lights, for one.
Normally green means “you can go, don’t worry nothing in your way”, of course when everyone obeys the rules.
In Canada, green means “well you’re allowed to go but there is still traffic crossing your way” which literally removes the single one reason why traffic lights were invented in the first place. Going left in Canada is an exercise in futility. First you have to deal with cars from the other side going straight on. So you drive to the middle of the crossing, then wait for those cars to clalear. But wait, there is more! Now you have to deal with all the pedestrians that also are crossing. Meanwhile the light turned yellow for a full two seconds, before turning red, and you’re still stuck in the middle of the crossing. Finally the pedestrians have cleared and after blocking the entire intersection for other traffic, now coming from left and right, for a full 5 seconds, you can finally continue to the left.
Each red - green cycle takes a good minute, and per cycle only one car can go so if there are 30 cars in front of you, waiting to make a left turn, you’re fucked for the next half hour.
Who ever came up with this system should be lines up and shot. If he’s dead already, dig him up, shoot his corpse and bury him again.
It’s beyond stupid and dangerous.
As a pedestrian, you always have to run and look around you to be sure you won’t be run over by some distracted driver, as a driver you are in a constant full panic mode to try and not murder pedestrians. It’s a shitshow