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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
You're unfortunately correct ... maybe not 'zero', but bugger all relative to the rest of the city. The streets where pedestrian-vehicle incidents occur are overwhelmingly not the streets where these changes took place. Every report the City has put out showed this to be the case, including the report they put out to justify this change.
You want to spend money? Fine, improve pedestrian crossings and markings, make it easier for drivers and pedestrians to avoid each other. This was, as you said, a solution in search of a problem.
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I think it only counts as something this "solution" would address if the person who hit the pedestrian was going over 40 km/h. If someone going 38 km/hr hits a pedestrian at that speed then this change wouldn't have helped anyway. I just don't see it, simply because its already extremely rare for anyone to be going more than 40 km/h on these streets as it is.