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The one issue I have with the article is that the author doesn’t mention specifics about designing streets to lower the speed. Is the implied suggestion to make
by mlazos 9y ago
The one issue I have with the article is that the author doesn’t mention specifics about designing streets to lower the speed. Is the implied suggestion to make roads terribly curved so it’s really hard to drive fast? That seems to have it’s own drawbacks. I was surprised the author didn’t mention that many cities have intersections designed so that cars trying to turn right with a green light often intersect with a crosswalk that is also green for pedestrians. That seems more amiable to redesign rather than the grid road designs favored in most cities.
- stinos 9y agoAuthor works for a company doing such desig it seems, see link in vey first sentence [1]. For an example see the link in the last paragraph [2] where a couple of possible techniques are shown. [1] https://altaplanning.com/ https://altaplanning.com/ [2] https://blog.altaplanning.com/reducing-speeding-related-crashes-through-design-5d79e8c7af8e https://blog.altaplanning.com/reducing-speeding-related-cras...
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- sparrc 9y agoI believe the author is advocating for "traffic calming" measures, which are a fairly standardized set of measures that urban planners and developers use to slow down traffic on streets to make them safer. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_calming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_calming