I would like to see cycle signals at intersections such that you refer to ( Colombo and Bealey is another example ) showing green for the first few seconds, then flash amber for most of the rest of the phase before turning red a few seconds prior to the phase end. This will allow anyone who is confident enough to check there is no turning traffic approaching from behind to have a better journey. Traffic turning right on green coming from the other direction and across the path of a cycle will sometimes stop and wait for a person who is waiting on the red light, not realising that it is a red that they are stopped for, rather than them being polite. If there is a group of bikes waiting to cross on the green phase it can be too short for everyone, a flashing amber is a good way of saying proceed with caution. I assume sadly though that, this would require a law change.

Looking forward to your next blog post Glen 🙂 I couldn’t agree more with Rich.

I have a blog post coming up about that; will explain a bit of the “why” and what might change…

Strickland-Antigua generally is an absolute exercise in frustration though in terms of signalling. It is basically about waiting at lights for half your journey, especially at Brougham and Moorhouse which have an incredibly long east-west phase and no advance sensor, so that if you arrive a second late, you are supposed to wait through an entire green and red cycle – again – even if all of the left turning cars have turned, and the phase for bikes is essentially halved. At the other lights you can end up stopped at a green light with no cars anywhere, pondering whether to ride against the lights. To the northwest of Hagley Park the bike lights are excellent, to the south, you are left under no illusion where bikes sit in the traffic hierarchy.