Council officers have confirmed that there will be improvements to waiting times at junctions. This follows work to improve the time pedestrians have to wait at standalone pedestrian crossings.
Cuncillors have been told that waiting times at 93% of standalone pedestrian crossings in the city have been reduced to 20 seconds.
There are 378 standalone crossings in the city.
Cllr Kate Campbell asked about the more complicated junctions in the capital and whether plans were in place to try and reduce waiting times there.
A council officer said: “Where we get into the signalised system, we’re into a really complex world of thousands of detectors dealing with pedestrians, tram, traffic, and the complexity of this urban traffic management system.
“It’s a more challenging piece of work, but absolutely we will undertake that work. I suppose it’s more detailed, it might take a bit more time than we had expected.”
Council officers also produced information on the way that, in the past six months, two junctions in the city had been modified to reduce pedestrian crossing waiting times.
These were both near schools, and aimed to make crossings easier around school travel times, as well as improve ‘signal timings’ generally.
Officers also outlined that works were underway to refurbish, and continue to maintain, traffic signals in the city.
By Joseph Sullivan, Local Democracy Reporter
