Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
I don't understand why the speed would need to be reduced now vs. when these speed limits were introduced in year whatever decades ago.
Are people walking around on the road? Don't you guys use sidewalks? When you approach intersections, do you not look to see if cars are coming / around or do you just wander on in hoping for the best?
A minute to commutes (both ways, every single time you leave your community- so multiple times a day probably?) actually is a big deal to many people. The city has grown and as such commute times generally speaking have grown. Every thing the city has done over the last (forever?) has been to make it harder or more annoying to drive. We live in Canada. Our city's footprint has grown ever larger and affordability on the inner-city side is strictly for millionaires or renting.
There's no reason that speed limits can't be better enforced with technology (auto cameras, which I am confident will pay for themselves in tickets within a year or two at most key residential neighbourhoods) or people can teach their kids and family to avoid wandering onto the roads.
What has changed in society from before to today that warrants this change? Poster who said society is getting soft is absolutely correct. Maybe if you're walking with your kids on the sidewalk get off your phone so they don't wander into traffic without you paying attention.
Drivers are literally the target of everything these days. As Bunk says, I borderline think things get wholesale safer if you move speed limits to the actual street engineered design, and we'll watch people drive more cautiously. Issue is the precious revenues.
Is it not possible that people are observing drivers going too fast because there are already so many impediments to driving that drivers are simply impatient / annoyed? So many areas in the city with lights that could simply be 4-way stops, for example. My community has like 4 playground zones. Takes forever to get out of and not a child in site virtually ever.
|
Is it soft to try to prevent the deaths of 9 people each year in Calgary? What was soft was adding seatbelts to cars. That and crash testing cars. That’s what made us soft.
While I disagree with a 30km/h speed limit saying that it’s because we are getting soft is a terrible argument. Yes we are getting soft if you define soft as in the risk tolerance for loss of life is going down. This is a good thing.
The argument against needs to be a rational cost benefit analysis. If the argument is Think of the Children vs Society is getting soft Think of the children will always win.