andomano
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Maybe taxes will be reduced with the sharp increase in speeding ticket revenue.
two ways of dealing with pot holes.
1. fix them
2. lower the speed limit by 10km/h so people can't feel them
Just about every side street I have seen in Toronto (not the arteries, multi-lane, or main streets) currently has the 40 km/h signs on them.
Just about every side street I have seen in Toronto (not the arteries, multi-lane, or main streets) currently has the 40 km/h signs on them. I see it as just switching which streets will have the posted signs. If there are no posted speed limit signs on an urban street, then speed limit will be 40 km/h, while the rest (the arteries, multi-lane, and main streets) will have 50 km/h or 60 km/h or whatever as posted. If some street needs the 30 km/h posted, that will still be posted.
The urban roads and streets will be assumed to be 40 km/h, unless otherwise posted. The rural roads will still be assumed to be 80 km/h, unless otherwise posted.
But speeding is not the issue in Montreal, it is drivers cutting off cyclists at intersections when turning.
What they will likely do is just put new signs on roads which are currently 50 and have no signs. Then for roads which are currently 40 and have signs, they will just never replace those signs. Good way to save money if they have a lot more '40' then '50' signs.
A little off topic UD2, but you'll likely feel the pot holes more going slower over them where the car reacts to every single bump, instead of going fast when you glide right through. Of course that's dependent on the softness of your shocks. The show Mythbusters did a show on that.
Next time my struts start leaking becasuse I've ran a pothole too fast. I'll make sure to have you pay for the replacement.
otherwise... my point remains more valid.
effect of pot holes proportionally decrase with speed.
Paris has enacted slow zones over much of the city in recent years. New Mayor Anne Hidalgo wants to go further. Map via World Streets
Slow-speed zones are an increasingly widespread tactic to improve street safety and urban livability. Inspired by a German town that limited motor vehicle speeds to 30 kilometers per hour — or roughly 19 miles per hour — British activists have made 20 mph zones a core street safety policy across the nation.
A slow zone in Paris. Photo via World Streets
The movement has begun to catch on in the United States, where New York City has been implementing 20 mph zones on neighborhood streets.
Now Eric Britton at World Streets reports that Paris, which has a number of slow zones already, is taking the idea citywide:
The just-elected new Mayor of Paris, Madame Anne Hidalgo, has prepared a revolutionary sustainable mobility project whereby virtually all of the streets of the city will be subject to a maximum speed limit of 30 km/hr.
The only exceptions in the plan are a relatively small number of major axes into the city and along the two banks of the Seine, where the speed limit will be 50 km/hr, and the city’s hard pressed ring road (périphérique) where the top permissible speed has recently been reduced from 80 to 70 km/hr. At the other end of the slowth spectrum are a certain number of “meeting zones” (zones de rencontre) spotted around the city in which pedestrians and cyclists have priority but mix with cars which are limited to a top speed of 20 km/hr. A veritable révolution à la française.Britton says the policy change will have far-ranging effects:
This major policy initiative has not however taken place overnight, since for some years now there has been a steady increase in the number of zones reserved for pedestrians only, and more recently a step-by-step movement to “eco-areas” (see http://www.eco-quartiers.fr) where top speeds are already limited to 30 km/hr. By 2013 some 560 kilometers of the city streets were already in such areas, about one third of the total.
As traffic speeds are significantly brought down across the city, a number of very important things occur as a direct result: substantially fewer accidents, significant reduction in serious injuries and deaths, energy savings, reduce dependence on imported fossil fuels, local air pollution reduction, quality-of-life improvements all those who live and work, and play and study there, improved conditions and local accessibility for local business, significantly reduced carbon stress on climate, and the long list goes on.