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Traffic calming is creating a virtuous driving environment, encouraging considerate and calm driving. Current american roads are a vicious environment, encoura
by trgn 3y ago
Traffic calming is creating a virtuous driving environment, encouraging considerate and calm driving.
Current american roads are a vicious environment, encouraging speeding, jostling for position, zoning out.
Traffic calming is the exact opposite of ruining streets.
- ShadowBanThis01 3y agoYes, creating congestion on purpose, along with dangerous physical obstacles, makes people "calm." And even more calming is the delay it introduces to emergency responses. Because when your dad's having a heart attack, I want the the paramedics to drive languidly up a lane and over picturesque mounds of asphalt and around "bump-outs" and wait for an immobilized column of traffic that can't pull out of the way because a lane has been deleted and replaced by a concrete berm or a field of plastic bollards. Ah, a paradise of virtue!