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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Mon Oct 12 15:24:57 2015, in response to Re: The Benefits of Slower Traffic, Measured in Money and Lives, posted by BrooklynBus on Mon Oct 12 13:04:22 2015. Most drivers don't respect speed limits because many if not most speed limits in urban areas are unrealistically too lowA common misconception among drivers. In NYC there were 130 pedestrian fatalities in a population of 8.2 million for a death rate of 1.6 fatalities per 100,000 people last year. It was the lowest rate since they began taking statistics. By comparison these are the 2013 US death rates for several diseases: asthma (1.1); cervical cancer (1.2); influenza (1.2) and tuberculosis (0.2). There are national programs to further reduce the mortality figures for these diseases. The pedestrian death by vehicle disease is more deadly. Efforts to reduce its death rate are met with resistance by those who are unwilling to sacrifice a few minutes of their time. if the city was so concerned about pedestrian safety why can't the speed limits actually reflect the conditions on the street Your paradigm is reversed. First, the speed limit is established by the relation between pedestrian deaths and vehicle speed. Next the street is designed to encourage adherence to the speed limit that is safe for pedestrians. The City is concerned about pedestrian safety; that's why they have reduced the default speed limit to 25 mph. It's also the reason the City is creating 20 mph neighborhood speed limit zones. |
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