Cyclists, regrets often over stockholmsområdets many red traffic lights – for good reasons, shows a new study from the Stockholm Region where all of the traffic signals in the regional cykelnätet has been mapped in terms of design and orbital periods. This highlighted the fact that the traffic signal is often adapted for motorist needs.
According to the study’s authors, the lives of the riders, however, could be improved with simple interventions. Among other things, through extended gröntider, coordination of multiple traffic signals in succession for the ”green wave” and the enabling of the free right turn for cyclists. In several cases, pointed out, it is also possible to replace traffic signals with bicycle crossings or hastighetssäkrade cykelpassager. A few years ago introduced the ”green wave” for example, on Götgatan in central Stockholm.
states that traffic signals should be tailored to cyclists needs. Among other things, cycling is not having to press a button to get past a traffic signal.
A stretch been studied in detail in the study is a part of the Salemstråket that runs along with the Huddingevägen. The separated distance between the Tumba and Rågsvedsvägen has been reviewed because it is considered problematic for cyclists with busy traffic and poor accessibility.
to the traffic lights adds a waiting time of around eight minutes for cyclists, which corresponds to a quarter of the total travel time. In the short term, the situation could be improved by extended gröntider and the so-called detection.
the Detection means that cyclists be registered by using the loops in the asphalt, which is common in the city of Stockholm. Outside the city of Stockholm has few traffic signals detection. In the city of Stockholm is the lion’s share of the traffic signal time-controlled and equipped with a fixed setting for gröntiden. Outside the city of Stockholm is governed, instead, most of the traffic signal of the traffic, which means that gröntiderna vary depending on how the traffic is flowing.
that the knowledge on the signals is bad in many of the region’s municipalities. In several municipalities means gaps in our knowledge about the signal settings that cyclists will have to wait for an unnecessarily long time.
In the long term, it is stated in the study, a part of the traffic signal along with Salemstråket be able to be removed and replaced with bicycle crossings where crossing traffic must give way to cyclists and may run in no more than 30 kilometres an hour.
– In the regional cykelplanen are high demands on the design of regional cycle routes. That the traffic signal be adapted to his needs is important in order to increase accessibility and safety for pedestrian traffic, ” says Ulf Eriksson, cykelsamordnare on the regional cykelkansliet in the Region of Stockholm.
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