07-19-2017, 09:15 AM
IMO, narrow lanes and narrower roads are the answer. The region standardizes on 11-12 foot lanes, (3.35-3.65 meter) lanes, which are well shown to encourage speeding.
City streets are a little different, but streets which have effectively a four lane cross-section, 2 parking lanes + 2 driving lanes with no markings and rarely any cars parked are going to have speeding as well.
Putting parked cars in bays would help, but also simply narrowing roads. 1 driving lane + 1 parking lane would be more than enough for most residential areas.
And then at the end of the day in addition to more safety we also have more money, more land, less environmental issues, I mean, for people who complain about government waste, this should be their dream issue.
City streets are a little different, but streets which have effectively a four lane cross-section, 2 parking lanes + 2 driving lanes with no markings and rarely any cars parked are going to have speeding as well.
Putting parked cars in bays would help, but also simply narrowing roads. 1 driving lane + 1 parking lane would be more than enough for most residential areas.
And then at the end of the day in addition to more safety we also have more money, more land, less environmental issues, I mean, for people who complain about government waste, this should be their dream issue.