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Sure, but the proven alternative here are a lot of instances of personal injury and property destruction, it's a pretty straightforward case.

• ryandrake 2y ago
  The upside of adding "traffic calming" features needs to be weighed against the downside. If you only consider the upside of reduced accidents, then we'd have speed bumps and stop signs every 100 meters on every road.
  • floxy 2y ago
    >I did get the SFMTA’s attention, they let me know a month later that my application was approved. Does this "approval" mean that at some point in the future, the relevant authority will look into things? Or that some traffic calming measure was approved, now the waiting for implementation is underway?
  • lotu 2y ago
    On residential streets where you want slow traffic yes. When you have a wide straight road people go fast on it. To prevent that you narrow the road, install curves and bumps. These require to the driver to slow down and be careful, which means they also notice when there are children nearby playing and don't run them over.
    • somanyphotons 2y ago
      In my early 20s I loved the traffic calming curves, it was a really fun challenge to go just as fast as you possibly could through them
      • teekert 2y ago
        Your license should have been taken away, until you'd learn, preferably before you'd kill a child.
        • somanyphotons 2y ago
          Sure, but they didn't, and I didn't harm anyone. The actual point, is that not every action has the intended consequences. In this case, traffic calming curves do the opposite for a non-zero percentage of people.