Just another day on a stroad
Just another day on a stroad
Safety island in a middle of high speed avenue, beg buttons and flowers in a memory of the previous victim.
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Nah that's nonsense, safety islands are an integral part of good road design. They slow down cars, make it easier to cross and break up the sea of asphalt. You'll find them all over countries like the Netherlands.
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Pedestrian islands can be done well, they just need thoughtful design and separate controlled crossing systems
Holy shit. There's already a memorial there. We have a few roads like this in Portland where pedestrians and cyclists get killed over and over. The city responded by putting up new speed limit signs and one of those radar speed displays but it hasn't changed anything. Folks still drive as recklessly as ever.
Why not put bollards there to protect anyone on the island from being mowed down? Cheaper than the camera and safer. The families should sue the hell out of the city for not putting a protective barrier there after the first death.
So absolutely nothing?
Someone who's going to crash into a pedestrian doesn't care what the speed limit sign says, and the radar speed signs can't give you a ticket so people just speed up to get a high score.
You talking about Powell? Gladstone and Cesar Chavez? Burnside and MLK? There are so damn many intersections that cyclists have died at
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@const_void @qnick While enforcing speed limits does help, the real problem is enforcing right of way; i.e. that it doesn't always default to *me*
I think the real problem is the pedestrians don't have any physical protection. It is a numbers game. Even if 99.9999% of drivers can navigate that intersection fine, it doesn't take long for the 1/1,000,000 that is drunk, up all night with a sick infant, etc to plow into pedestrians. Probably every month or two based on that kind of road's capacity. People need to start suing and make it too expensive to not put barriers around the pedestrian island.
I try not to stick around if there a memorial near by. It's like coming across a piles of bones when in the forest: not a good place to hangout.
Here's the place for the context: https://maps.app.goo.gl/5RAi2mcRYFSTJS4P7
7 lanes!!!
The stroad gods demand blood sacrifice.
Sorry, the picture doesn't seem to be attached. Lemmy try again