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> It’s not ok to let your five year old play with a soccer ball on a busy neighborhood street unsupervised. When I grew up the road by my grandparents house wa
by josefx 3y ago
> It’s not ok to let your five year old play with a soccer ball on a busy neighborhood street unsupervised.
When I grew up the road by my grandparents house was wide and empty and you could see anything coming a mile away and drivers could see the kids playing just as well.
Now it has been redesigned to be a cluttered mess to "discourage speeding" even adding parking spots to reduce the width of the road. You could drive through it at walking speed and still wouldn't see a kid trying to cross the road before it popped out from behind a car right in front of you.
- mcv 3y agoI suspect the added parking was not "to reduce the width of the road", because it's easy to reduce the width of the road without adding parking. The probably just wanted to add parking and misused the safety argument to sell it, ignoring the fact that visibility is also important for safety.
- CalRobert 3y agoNarrower streets are safer and nicer, though. Wide streets really do result in much higher speeds. https://grist.org/cities/heres-why-narrower-streets-are-safer/ https://grist.org/cities/heres-why-narrower-streets-are-safe... among many other sources. Ideally they'd add parking protected bike lanes