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Originally Posted by Flames0910
Already posted in the thread and in the Notice of Motion. The city’s pedestrian strategy report in 2016 found that 50 per cent of all pedestrian collisions (and 83 per cent of collisions for small children) occur on residential and collector roads within communities.
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So they are starting out by twisting the stats to support their desired outcome then.
Saying that you need to lower residential limits to 30kph because 50% of collisions happen on collector and residential roads is disingenuous. They have the stats for residential collisions, so why are they not using that statistic to justify their position? I'd suspect that they are so low that they needed to lump in collectors to bring the number up to something they can make a fuss about.
They also don't seem to differentiate between collisions where the vehicle was at fault versus a pedestrian at fault, nor do they propose a solution to reduce the amount of collisions caused by pedestrians, even though that represents 50% of all collisions.