Grant Gottgetreu, Former traffic cop in New West and West Vancouver, now a forensic criminal and traffic consultant at Forensictrafficpro.com discusses if right turn lanes are set to disappear in Surrey
“When you take away a right turn lane, you’re going to create more congestion at intersections… and there is already enough congestion and road rage in the lower mainland…”
“You’re going to have people taking chances and running yellow lights, and you’re going to have people making those hard right-turns and disregarding pedestrians because these cars have been sitting at the intersections now much longer than they used to.”
“Some of the jurisdictions are smart and what they’ll do is they’ll have the walk signal start before the light turns green. So it get’s the pedestrians into the crosswalk before the cars start moving which is a brilliant idea.”