General Road and Highway Discussion

[danbrotherston]

Dan, I also love how you avoided my edit.  How should things run?  Do you want a full commercial aircraft level investigation and report for every fatality or major accident?  You seem to think that an increase in the speed limit is an unacceptable decrease in safety, is the status quo ok?  What changes should be made?

How do you make this work?

I didn't "avoid" your edit, my comment was already long enough, and the answer to your edit is very simple: Do exactly what the Swedish government has done for the past 20 years in their Vision Zero program, it's not complicated, their policies have been incredibly effective, they've halved their injury rate on their roads.  Their country is very similar to ours, a few dense cities, but also substantial rural areas with many two lane roads.  Most of their interventions have been design interventions...for example, their two lane roads almost all now have a crash barrier in the middle to prevent crossing the line collisions.  Yes, it's more inconvenient because now you must largely travel at the speed of the slowest car...so inconvenient. And yet that eliminated one of the largest sources of deaths on their roads.

The point is, this isn't new or untested.

The reason it has come up on the 401 is because a change is proposed that will kill more people (don't for a second believe that there is going to be more enforcement, that will not happen).