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Posted by BrooklynBus on Wed Nov 19 18:44:37 2014, in response to Re: How to Meaningfully Improve Traffic Safety, posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Wed Nov 19 17:33:50 2014. The Queens Blvd speed limit since 1996 when I started using it on a daily basis was 35 mph. It may have even been 40 mph before that. I wouldn't know. It was lowered to 30 mph during the last term of the Bloomberg Administration as part of DOT's efforts to reduce accidents on Queens Blvd before Vision Zero.Since Vision Zero have been attempts to lower it to 25 mph. Now a question for you, if DOT engineers believe 30 mph is the correct speed, which I disagree with because I'm entitled to disagree, why would the City lower the speed further to 25 mph? Queens Blvd and Woodhaven Blvd are both very long streets and would tend to have more accidents than shorter streets. To get a fair picture of how dangerous a street is you measure accidents, serious injuries, or deaths on a per mile basis, not by street name and you analyze the causes for those accidents. You don't just attribute speed as the cause and conclude the speed limit should be lowered because of the single survival statistic you keep referring to. If Woodhaven and Cross Bay Blvd, its extension, had the same name, would the street become more dangerous? By just looking at street names, it would, but in reality it wouldn't be any more dangerous. Also, how many of the Queens Blvd accidents that you attribute to making it the most dangerous road in New York State, occurred on the portion with the #7 line down the center, and how many on the portion with the service roads or the divided road without service roads south of Borough Hall? That's three different street configurations that you are lumping into one because it is all called Queens Blvd. If they rename the portion of the street where the #7 line operates, woud the street become any safer? Of course not. But according to the way you and DOT are analyzing the situation the number of accidents would be severely reduced making "Queens Blvd" a safer street. As far as drugs are concerned, there is a certain fatality standard that must not be exceeded during the required 15 year testing period (approximate) before the FDA approves them. Something like 1 death in 100,000 is considered permissable. it is doubtful that many people are all of a sudden going to start dying more frequently after 15 years. If a road fatality rate of 4 per year, all of a sudden becomes 8 per year, it could be the result of a single accident, not because the road has mysteriously become twice as dangerous. Though people like you would claim that it did. I am probably a pedestrian 50 percent of the time. I walk more than you think I do. Sometimes I don't get inside my car for three days at a time. I walk or take the bus for short trips and the train for trips to Manhattan and for a trip to my dentist in Brooklyn. I also used to use my bike for short trips but stopped biking for personal reasons because my sister was killed in a bike accident after spending 7 years in a coma. And she was not hit by a car. I use the bus when I have the option of walking. I do not want to ever be in the position where I am waiting 45 minutes in the cold or rain for a bus that doesn't come and I will have to call a cab, so I drive. I was in that position often when I was younger and I think I deserve better now that I am a senior so I choose to drive. Does that make me an evil person in your eyes? I still have not stopped fighting for better mass transit, which I have devoted my life to. I organized the community to fight for the successful return of the B4 which I do not even use. And I will continue to fight. Right now I am involved with the reactivation effort of the Rockaway Beach Line which isn't even in my home borough. You think you know everything about me, but you don't. |
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