Green Line in Brighton stopped due to car; Sorry, BC students, you won't get far

It looks to me like the side street doesn't cross the trolley tracks here, but a crosswalk does.

This is an insane intersection. Outbound cars come screaming over the hill and run that red light constantly. There is even an alert at the top of the hill letting them know there is a signal ahead, but it does little good. The in-bound side has a long stretch just after a curve which drivers seem to take as a challenge to see how fast they can get going up the next hill. There are four walk-lights across Comm Ave and they seem to be taken out in rotation by cars; it's unusual for all four to be working at the same time. Cars are always turning in front of trains.

The only reason I didn't actually see this particular accident (and was not made late to work) is because I'm working from home today. But I can take a good guess as to how it happened...

Basically, the signals are *only* controlled by pedestrian buttons here on both sides of Comm Ave.

Colborne is a one-way away from Comm Ave. The westbound carriage lane isn't allowed to turn onto the main lanes of Comm Ave or cross Comm Ave to go eastbound. The train crossing only exists for eastbound lanes to cross to Colborne or hang a U-turn. However, you can't see past the train fencing well as you go eastbound and have to cross 3 lanes of traffic (2 plus the carriage lane). So most turning cars start the left, stand on the outbound tracks, and then cross fully after getting a better view up Comm Ave.

This is also the only way to get back in that part of Brighton from the west as Washington St is marked for no left turns on outbound Comm Ave (why? I don't know, there's even a pause in the westbound traffic light cycle for dedicated left turns from the other side but it's only used by the pedestrian lights and eastbound traffic to go straight even though there's never enough to need the extended green. That light cycle is always messed up). So, because it's one of the only ways across Comm Ave (you can make an earlier left or two or go all the way to Summit and hang a U-turn), it's pretty heavily used by left-turning vehicles.

I imagine that's why it has a stop sign, on top of it being downhill directly into a T stop (there's a stop sign going inbound coming off that hill too that they have to make before approaching the traffic signal at Washington).