Road design, safety and Vision Zero

[ijmorlan]

This is from nearby London ON, but I think we have a new metric for how good a road safety program is.

https://london.ctvnews.ca/drivers-compla...-1.6087278

Basically, people are complaining that they have to drive more slowly through an intersection...which is like...the whole fucking point. The complaints are revealing. The concept of being forced to drive carefully and slowly is so foreign to drivers that they believe that it must be a mistake when they are forced to do so.

In any case, the metric is, are drivers complaining.

If drivers aren't complaining about something, then it isn't an effective road safety program. I really wish that staff would be willing to point this out.

That intersection looks nice! Here too, please. My only suggestion would be to make the small islands significantly taller — maybe twice the height of a normal curb. But at least they are there and seem to have real curbs on them — a significant disincentive to cutting corners when turning right.