The Transport Bureau (DSAT) assures on its website that traffic lights will be installed at a new junction leading towards Galaxy Macau.
The junction in question is located at the back of the Venetian Macao’s CotaiExpo complex. There is an opening so that in the future, traffic can cross three lanes going in the opposite direction to enter the new Galaxy International Convention Center at the Galaxy Macau.
On March 10, the Times reported that a new junction had been built to allow future southbound traffic to cross three northbound lanes to enter the new Galaxy Macau development.
DSAT was emailed one day before publication for the reason it approved the establishment of this junction when a roundabout is about 300 meters from the new junction, as well as whether it has plans to improve the junction to ensure better safety.
The bureau only addressed the second question, omitting the question on the necessity of the junction, on its website post.
This is not the only new junction built. There is also a new junction along Avenida de Cotai, on the south side of the Galaxy Macau site. It is a similar case, as a roundabout for traffic to turn and enter Galaxy Macau is not far away.
Critics have suggested that there is an abundance of traffic lights in Macau, halting traffic that could have run smoothly into intermittent sections which appears to cause traffic jams.
At about 1 p.m., June 20, 2015, a 57-year-old local motor cyclist was driving along Avenida Marginal Flor de Lotus, when he crashed into a seven-seater vehicle that was moving out from a road opening and crossing three lanes at a relatively low speed. The seven-seater was traveling towards the entrance of the Broadway Macau parking lot.
The crash took the life of the motor cyclist. AL
