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A large issue in the US is that local communities have very little control over many of the roads in their communities. In addition to locally controlled roads,
by rcme 3y ago
A large issue in the US is that local communities have very little control over many of the roads in their communities. In addition to locally controlled roads, there are county roads, state roads, and interstates. As a result, even if a community wants to make their road safer, they have no power to do so. There is a county road in my town. The crosswalks make no sense and the road needs to be narrowed to force traffic to slow down. People have been complain about this for a long time. A teenager was stuck and killed a few months ago. Still nothing has been done because the town has almost no power over the county. And if this was a state road, there would be no hope.
- kibwen 3y ago> As a result, even if a community wants to make their road safer, they have no power to do so. Visions of black-clad infrastructure guerillas working at night to install speed bumps on residential roads.
- mbauman 3y agoPerfect example here is that Indiana has just created a law that explicitly forbids a singular targeted city from adding _any_ new restrictions against turning right on red in _any_ intersection. https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1050/2023 https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1050/2023