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Originally Posted by #-3
What is the Science you've seen behind it?
the data I've seen suggest we need better crossing controls, better awareness of pedestrian/vehicle right of way, and better enforcement surrounding illegal turns. Those problems are causing the overwhelming majority of incidents, and the ratios carry across injury, non-injury and fatal.
So well I believe that high velocity crashes are more dangerous, I am not convinced their is a causal relations between speed and the number of severe injuries.
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This drives me right up the wall. I have a bus-stop about 2 houses down from mine that drops kids off after school and the crossing is marked exclusively by a sloped sidewalk.
Thats it. The sidewalk slopes down to meet the road.
No lines, but kids get dropped off from school at the stop and try and cross a fairly busy road.
They just recently put up one of those folding signs indicating that its actually a crosswalk and motorists should be on the lookout. Wooo.....
I love those flashing signs in the middle of the road when pedestrians want to cross, it gets your attention and solves pretty much all the problems.
Now we just have to teach those useless, feckless pedestrians how to use the damned things. Apparently the seemingly simple task of 'pressing a button' eludes even some of the more sophisticated of pedestrians and they continue to just carelessly run out into the road.
Perhaps we should institute some manner of 'Re-Education.' Perhaps through hard labour.