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Originally Posted by surferguy
It has been noted that a child hit at 30 kph will have significantly less injuries than one hit at 50 kph.
This would be positive. I can understand why people would be grumpy about this. If it changes so be it. It is not the end of the world
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Is there some epidemic of kids getting hit on residential roads at 31+kph? Or is this going to be a "if it saves just one life" argument?
If I recall, they tried to claim that they were doing this to drop pedestrian fatalities at first, until it was shown that that it wouldn't have prevented a single one.
If there is some epidemic of pedestrians being hit on residential roads where the vehicle was travelling between 31 and 50kph, then they can show the stats that show it. It's the same thing as the year round, extended duration playground zones. There wasn't a bunch of kids getting hit, yet they still ignored that and pushed it through.