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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (15 children)

In the US speed limits are set by 85% of traffic speed on a road. So if the road was set for 30mph, and then you changed it to 20MPH with no other changes, you will immediately get 85% of drivers breaking the "limit."

Another way to say it is that UK's department for transport has incompetently designed 85% of their 20mph roads.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@PowerCrazy @mondoman712
The 85% rule is insane. Basically, it means that speed limits are set by the most dangerous drivers.
The streets in my town were set out over 120 years ago. But as usual, cars have usurped the rights of prior users to the point where KSIs or peds and cyclists run at 4x the UK rate, and I don't even live in Florida. I mean, jaywalking laws were brought in to ease drivers' consciences about the number of pedestrians they were killing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

@PowerCrazy @mondoman712
Don't start me on public transit... 120 years ago my town had a fully-fledged tramway system which connected to other local systems spread over hundreds of miles centred on our local railway station.
The tracks were ripped up to provide space for parking...
Uh-oh! I got started!!!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Oh for sure. Road design is a disaster for anything other then highspeed thorough-fares, which would be better off as trains. It sucks.

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