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Originally Posted by Bunk
The biggest thing you can do to reduce collisions is to design/retrofit streets such that people will naturally drive slowly and more safely. We all see those wide sweeping streets that turn into a raceway. Changing a speed limit alone has some utility, but it is not on its own sufficient. However, it is a necessary step in leading to design changes to align with the posted speed limit. A street designed so that cars will usually travel 30 looks a fair amount different than one designed for 50. My residential street happens to be a bit wider than the norm and people fly down it. It sucks.
One of the biggest requests to the City is for traffic calming. I tend to think people want other people to drive slowly on their street, but they want to be able to drive fast on other people’s streets.
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In Garrison Green the city installed a bunch of traffic calming measures. It has for sure helped. Forand Street Leaving the community is essentially a drag race though. We have a very high density of kids out and about here.
I had someone come look at my listed house. One of the reasons they stated for not wanting to make an offer is that there was too many traffic calming measures.. LOL.