Comment 101718

By Safety (anonymous) | Posted May 28, 2014 at 14:26:18

The roads exist. The science says that you study the road and set the speed limit within the 85th percentile. anything less does not make the road safer. So, when you get the road as safe as it can be, you change the road - why? Because you like things to move more slowly? The obsession with getting rid of private vehicular traffic wags the engineering dog.

My guess is that if studied, the vast majority of city side streets would call for a reduction of top speed to below 40kmph. Many major arteries would be 60Kph or higher in some cases.

Do we need any major arteries? If not, make all the roads side streets and every one drives below 40 KPH. If we need major arteries, leave them alone.

The pedestrian traffic fatality rate, rate being being death ratio-ed to usage, will not drop by any significant factor by simply reducing speed. Therefore, reducing speed in the face of that science means the reduction must be motivated by some other factor.

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