[sustran] Re: Pelican Crossings!!

Kanthi Kannan kanthikannan at gmail.com
Mon Jul 12 19:04:24 JST 2010


Dear Ashok and Sudhir

 

Thanks but can we get the details so that we can start a discussion amongst
the people in the area and also involve politicians and officials. Presently
we do not have a clue about the costs and installation procedure.

 

The traffic in Hyd is becoming bad to worse by the day and accidents are on
the raise. People have stopped walking because walking has becoming
Hazardous

 

Thanks

 

Regards

 

Kanthi

 

 

 

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From: Sudhir [mailto:sudhir at cai-asia.org] 
Sent: 12 July 2010 15:25
To: Ashok Sreenivas
Cc: Kanthi Kannan; Sustran-discuss at list.jca.apc.org
Subject: Re: [sustran] Re: Pelican Crossings!!

 

Hi Kanthi,

 

I agree with Ashok.  It has been failure @ may places as nobody acknowledges
it . Also add traffic calming with such elements..

 

regards

Sudhir

 

 

On 12 July 2010 17:50, Ashok Sreenivas <ashok.sreenivas at gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Kanthi,

A word of caution based on our experience. Installing pelican crossings by
themselves don't do much to increase pedestrian safety since most motorists
and pedestrians don't know how to use it - i.e. pedestrians don't know how
to operate it, and on the rare occasions they do, the resultant red is
completely ignored by most motorists who are just not used to such
"non-intersection" signals. So, my suggestion would be to introduce pelican
signals along with other elements such as signages, awareness building among
motorists and pedestrians, some amount of enforcement or using temporary
traffic wardens for a month or so, and maybe even a concurrent pedestrian
safety campaign in the vicinity of the pelican signals.

Ashok



On 12/07/2010 3:02 PM, Kanthi Kannan wrote: 

Dear all
 
 
 
Greetings!!
 
We are trying to get permissions to Install Pelican Crossings. Any one who
has contacts with vendors? Or knows whom to contact to get the details of
cost etc? 
 
Thanks
 
 
 
Regards
 
 
 
Kanthi
 
 
 
THOSE WHO WALK CANNOT DECIDE AND THOSE WHO DECIDE DO NOT WALK
 
 
 
 
 
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