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Could it possibly be the well educated populous that drives with sense and caution? Just asking, as in the states we have people going 50mph (80.4kmh) on reside

Could it possibly be the well educated populous that drives with sense and caution? Just asking, as in the states we have people going 50mph (80.4kmh) on residential streets in front of parks full of kids, people running, etc. I live near a park. The speed limit is 25mph. I have been driving down that street at 29mph, and had people _pass_ my car, blowing the horn and yelling (on a completely residential two lane) like I was standing still. This is a common, everyday occurrence.

pornel 6y ago
Maybe the road has been (mis)designed for faster speeds? Wide, straight roads have a "natural" high speed limit. The slightly counter-intuitive solution is to make residential roads narrow and winding, which makes drivers slow down. Or at least it should have road bumps.
- wil421 6y ago
  Speed humps make a huge difference. I lived on a road where it was 25 but naturally you would want to go 35. After installing speed humps people would slow down instead of coasting down a hill gaining speed.
throwaway0a5e 6y ago
It takes two to have a mulit-party accident. You can have the best educated drivers and the most draconian enforcement in the world but if everyone else acts like it's a college campus you're gonna get a lot of red road paint. The cities without a lot of traffic fatalities tend to have traffic that behaves a lot like the industrial facilities where there aren't a lot of traffic mishaps (and industry has been studying this a lot longer because they have an obvious stake in the issue). Namely classes of traffic have to interact with each over only minimally, interactions only happen in defined places and all classes of traffic behave very conservatively. Also, if people are getting so bent out of shape as to pass you and honk at you with any sort of regularity that's a good heuristic for the speed limit and/or your adherence to it being inappropriate for the construction and conditions of the road.

pornel 6y ago

Maybe the road has been (mis)designed for faster speeds? Wide, straight roads have a "natural" high speed limit. The slightly counter-intuitive solution is to make residential roads narrow and winding, which makes drivers slow down. Or at least it should have road bumps.

wil421 6y ago
Speed humps make a huge difference. I lived on a road where it was 25 but naturally you would want to go 35. After installing speed humps people would slow down instead of coasting down a hill gaining speed.

throwaway0a5e 6y ago

It takes two to have a mulit-party accident. You can have the best educated drivers and the most draconian enforcement in the world but if everyone else acts like it's a college campus you're gonna get a lot of red road paint. The cities without a lot of traffic fatalities tend to have traffic that behaves a lot like the industrial facilities where there aren't a lot of traffic mishaps (and industry has been studying this a lot longer because they have an obvious stake in the issue). Namely classes of traffic have to interact with each over only minimally, interactions only happen in defined places and all classes of traffic behave very conservatively. Also, if people are getting so bent out of shape as to pass you and honk at you with any sort of regularity that's a good heuristic for the speed limit and/or your adherence to it being inappropriate for the construction and conditions of the road.