{"id":943,"date":"2022-10-18T18:04:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T18:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clearingourpath.thedev.ca\/?page_id=943"},"modified":"2025-03-18T13:13:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T16:13:29","slug":"scrambled-crossings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/clearingourpath.thedev.ca\/index.php\/design-needs\/exterior-design-elements\/street-crossings\/scrambled-crossings\/","title":{"rendered":"Scrambled Crossings"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Exclusive Pedestrian Phase or Scrambled Crosswalks<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_337\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-337\" style=\"width: 436px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-337\" src=\"https:\/\/clearingourpath.thedev.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/fig4-2-9-1.jpg\" alt=\"Scrambled intersection in downtown Calgary. Illustrates diagonal crossing lines in addition to traditional pedestrian crosswalks.\" width=\"436\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clearingourpath.thedev.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/fig4-2-9-1.jpg 477w, https:\/\/clearingourpath.thedev.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/fig4-2-9-1-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-337\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scrambled intersection in downtown Calgary. Illustrates diagonal crossing lines in addition to traditional pedestrian crosswalks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At an intersection with an exclusive pedestrian phase \u2013 also known as scrambled crosswalk or Barnes Dance crossings, vehicular traffic stops in all directions providing pedestrians the opportunity to cross in any direction. there is also a design such as that applied in downtown Vancouver, where a tradition phase of pedestrian crossing(North-South\/ East-West) and scrambled crossing phase alternate.<\/p>\n<p>However, conventional APS signaling can create ambiguity about when it is safe to begin a crossing, especially if a pedestrian with sight loss is unaware that the intersection they are approaching is one with an exclusive pedestrian phase. Scrambled crosswalks are becoming increasingly more common but research as to best practices on making these structures accessible to pedestrians with sight loss is limited.<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr>CNIB<\/abbr> Foundation recommends that an audible message<br \/>\n<strong>\u2018the walk light is on for all crossings\u2019<\/strong><br \/>\nreplace the conventional accessible pedestrian signal sounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive Pedestrian Phase or Scrambled Crosswalks At an intersection with an exclusive pedestrian phase \u2013 also known as scrambled crosswalk or Barnes Dance crossings, vehicular traffic stops in all directions providing pedestrians the opportunity to cross in any direction. there is also a design such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":703,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-943","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearingourpath.thedev.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearingourpath.thedev.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearingourpath.thedev.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearingourpath.thedev.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearingourpath.thedev.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/clearingourpath.thedev.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1626,"href":"https:\/\/clearingourpath.thedev.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/943\/revisions\/1626"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearingourpath.thedev.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearingourpath.thedev.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}