If people are ignoring the speed limit, you turn to infrastructure changes so people drive slower, eliminating slip lanes, no 5 lane roads in ‘walkable’ neighborhoods, or if you do add in pedestrian islands, etc.
If the focus is on road deaths, why bring up the red herring of cyclists and pedestrians? Pedestrians aren’t killing people, cars are.
To your point about cars from the 50s, they even talked about how cars today are bigger, faster, and higher (this last especially kills many more peds).
cooler266 t1_ixzfb9n wrote
Reply to comment by Merker6 in The Exceptionally American Problem of Rising Roadway Deaths (includes a focus on pedestrian and cyclist deaths in DC) by woulditkillyoutolift
If people are ignoring the speed limit, you turn to infrastructure changes so people drive slower, eliminating slip lanes, no 5 lane roads in ‘walkable’ neighborhoods, or if you do add in pedestrian islands, etc.
If the focus is on road deaths, why bring up the red herring of cyclists and pedestrians? Pedestrians aren’t killing people, cars are.
To your point about cars from the 50s, they even talked about how cars today are bigger, faster, and higher (this last especially kills many more peds).