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City expands leading pedestrian intervals and considers no‑turn‑on‑red restrictions; advocates urge pairing with accessible pedestrian signals
Summary
A Transportation Commission member urged the committee to require accessible pedestrian signals (APS) at intersections with leading pedestrian intervals (LPI), and city traffic staff outlined recent LPI/No‑Right‑on‑Red deployments and planned locations.
A Transportation Commission member urged the committee to require accessible pedestrian signals (APS) where leading pedestrian intervals (LPI) or exclusive pedestrian phasing are present, and city traffic staff described current LPI deployments and planned No‑Right‑on‑Red restrictions paired with LPIs.
"People with vision loss traditionally learn to align and cross with their parallel traffic... When the pedestrian phase begins before the parallel traffic, it's noted in MUTCD how this has the effect of pedestrians beginning their crossing too late and putting them in danger," Rachel Lehi, who said she…
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