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Re: Atlantic Avenue speed limit lower to 25 mph |
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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Sun Apr 13 16:55:16 2014, in response to Re: Atlantic Avenue speed limit lower to 25 mph, posted by AMoreira81 on Sun Apr 13 15:29:12 2014. My own interest is reducing vehicular speed at all times. There are many ways to accomplish this. Changing the legal speed limit is one strategy. It's the least expensive strategy. Its weakness is that it depends on drivers know what the default speed limit is and to obey it. This has proved difficult on arterial streets.Other strategies rely on some form of traffic calming to make motorists to slow down. Reducing lane count and width is another. Others involve pavement treatments like speed bumps, paving intersections with cobblestones, raising intersections, etc. Still others involve having traffic signals turn red, when speeding is detected. It does not take much imagination to see how cars can be outfitted to reduce vehicular speed. There are smartphone apps that sound alarms, when a speed is exceeded. The problem with the smartphone app is that the driver has to manually set the alarm speed. However, OnStar and similar devices can be set to automatically sound an alarm when the legal speed limit is exceeded. Smartphones could also be automatically set. However, probing the current location via GPS would be a big battery drain. Financial incentives can also be employed. Insurance companies can install black boxes that record location and speed. They can offer big insurance discounts (say 33%) to drivers that don't speed. |
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