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Re: Summary and Video of November 2015 SBS meeting in Woodhaven |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Tue Feb 2 21:46:10 2016, in response to Re: Summary and Video of November 2015 SBS meeting in Woodhaven, posted by R30A on Tue Feb 2 21:01:33 2016. If a maniac is going to speed at 50 or 60 mph on a city street, they are going to do that and kill people regardless if the speed limit is 25, 30, or 35 mph.The other most common way pedestrians are injured is when cars are turning and either the motorist, the pedestrian, or both are not paying adequate attention. Again, no relation to the speed limit. What lowering the limits to unrealistic levels accomplishes are longer trip times for cars and trucks, costing time and money and driving up prices. It also has the additional effect of greatly adding to the city's revenue which is the real reason. Increased safety for pedestrians is just a smokescreen. If the city really cared about increased safety, crosswalks and lane markings would not be allowed to totally deteriorate and in some cases remain that way for years. My street was resurfaced a year ago and DOT still has not painted a yellow line in the center of the street to separate the directional traffic. State DOT also would not have installed dangerous and misleading signs on the Gowanus that could not be read after dark if safety was a priority. Now that the permanent signs are in place, there still is a problem because they didn't allow you any time after the sign to switch lanes. You have to be in the proper lane by the time you reach the sign, so you only have a few feet to get in the proper lane at 50 mph which is highly dangerous. Those so called traffic engineers are throughly incompetent. |
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