Rating: 3
All of the bike signals along the Edgewood Cycletrack are unbelievably badly designed. Some of them never work. Most don't work consistently, which forces bikers to sit through several long light cycles hoping to catch a break; to get off and walk as pedestrians to hit a beg button that may or may not work; or to risk proceeding on a red bike signal, which creates unnecessary conflict. Even when the bike signals do occasionally work, they often don't register a biker until one is sitting at the light, which means a biker will never get smooth light cycles, and will always end up waiting. The bike light signal is also disgustingly short, just like pedestrian signals. The answer is as painfully obvious as the problem: Just give bikers and pedestrians a leading interval green light and the right of way whenever drivers going the same direction have a green light, and those drivers can yield as needed and proceed when possible. Stop making pedestrians and bikers beg for a turn at an intersection. Drivers' time and convenience is not more valuable, and it doesn't even impede them if a pedestrian and/or bike signal is on while they're driving if no pedestrian or bike is there.