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Re: Atlantic Avenue speed limit lower to 25 mph |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Apr 18 14:27:48 2014, in response to Re: Atlantic Avenue speed limit lower to 25 mph, posted by Stephen Bauman on Fri Apr 18 12:26:00 2014. You didn't answer my question about braking. According to the numbers you provided, at 6.7 mph per second braking rate, with no reaction time you can only brake from 13.4 mph in two seconds. In 3 seconds, you can brake from only 20.1 mph. Yet you state that three seconds is enough time to come to a complete stop from 30 mph. What am I missing? Or are your numbers wrong?Again using your statistics, if 27% of all Brooklyn trips over five miles with at least one end in Brooklyn are made on local streets, I would consider that very significant. The percentage may not sound huge, but multiplying it by the number of trips taken, we have a very considerable number. It's just so easy to bend statistics to show results you want to show by using small percentages instead of real numbers. I could also argue that no one need to be concerned about identity theft because it only affects 3% of the population. Would you agree? |
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