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This is true, but the problem is that there is so much low-hanging fruit here like painting new lines, adding cheap concrete barriers, or installing elevated cr
by alright2565 2y ago
This is true, but the problem is that there is so much low-hanging fruit here like painting new lines, adding cheap concrete barriers, or installing elevated crosswalks.
The price is far far less than whatever the price of a human life is. The reason they are not implemented is not cost, but because people here consider it their god-given right to drive as quickly and aggressively as they want.
- c0balt 2y ago> The reason they are not implemented is not cost, but because people here consider it their god-given right to drive as quickly and aggressively as they want. As an amendment to this: People in many western countries tend to do this. Writing from Germany with, e.g., speed limits on some high ways being a broken promise from the last election.
- 0xcde4c3db 2y agoYep. A major arterial in my city is very obviously too wide for the traffic it carries, even during rush hour. I don't remember the exact number, but a study a few years ago found that the average speed was something like 12 MPH above the posted limit. People completely lost their shit when it was proposed to narrow it and put in bike lanes (the bike lanes weren't the point, but people were cycling on the sidewalk to avoid the impatient/distracted/aggressive drivers, and it would have been silly to not use the space for anything at all).