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Originally Posted by GGG
In my opinion this is terrible human centric design. It encourages drivers to drive faster than the design speed because of perceived safety. Instead using barriers will reduce speeds naturally to the design speed. Also since Stoney has only a few curves and is relatively flat the design speed of the as built state of most of the road is greater than the 110 set out in the contract documents
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This is a basic tactic of lowering speeds and they're doing it here where it makes sense. Look at the barracks. I totally support this form of slowing people down where its warranted. Its effecticlve and solves the basic cause of speeding, which is "this is way too slow for this road". Ask any speeder on the planet, not one would speed for kicks if they felt unsafe. Every casual speeder is just chugging along at the speed they feel comfortable at.
Its been proven to work in Germany, why cant it work here?