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We can also prevent people from driving 50MPH through residential neighborhoods with good street design. Current safety standards with open roads encourage peop
by bkettle 3y ago
We can also prevent people from driving 50MPH through residential neighborhoods with good street design. Current safety standards with open roads encourage people to ignore the speed limit. Safety features like raised crosswalks, curb bulb-outs at intersections, and roundabouts at small intersections like those used in Seattle all make it uncomfortable to drive fast. This would go far in reducing egregious speeding without the claims of authoritarianism that would certainly come with technological speed controls.
- cptskippy 3y agoYou're right and the thought of this always makes me chuckle and think of a neighborhood nearby that has enacted these traffic calming measures along a heavily trafficked corridor. The curbs of the pinch points and chicanes are black from tire rubs. You probably don't have to wait more than 10 minutes to see a car come along and smack into a curb.
- zacharyaustin11 3y agoI live on a street that is an arterial in Oklahoma. Generally in tulsa people drive 45-50mph on our grid (major streets every mile). I had to have a 125cc scooter to keep up with traffic. Even on an e-bike going 25mph I had people trying to run me off the road if I used the full lane. I am seriously wondering if we just need to setup camera speed traps and red light cameras to solve this and fund better human scaled infrastructure. Imagine trying to cross one of these streets where there isn’t a crosswalk for a half mile