FireRetardant @ FireRetardant @lemmy.world

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Have you ever decided you were going too fast to stop for a yellow while speeding?

There are other places that still use cars and have way safer roads than us. We are accepting half assed safety because thats been the status quo in north america for decades.

No i was pointing out that speeding isn't the main factor speeding them up. Providing alternatives to driving is a better solution to congestion and traffic. Each lane of a road has a shockingly low capacity when compared to other ways of getting around.

A pedestrian was killed about 1 month before a camera was put in place on a straight 4 lane road with good visibility on both sides in my city.

The time saved is due to the green lights and less congestion. The time saved due to the speeding is miniscule in comparison.

"I have places to be so fuck the safety of children and families"

If you cant reduce your speed from 60 to 40, you are the one that is incompetent.

It costs millions to redesign and refurbish 1 road while it costs thousands to operate the cameras. We should be working towards building safer roads but ill take enforcement in the meantime, lives are literally at risk if we let speeds remain high on our city streets.

Even if every paving company in ontario worked for free year round we could not bring every unsafe, needlessly wide road to a better standard within a year. Nearly every major road in every city and town would need to be redesigned and repaved.

The thing with speeding is that you will end up running more reds and yellows just due to the stopping distance. Not every light has the same yellow period. The grading, speed and design of the road factor in. If you are doing 60 in a 40 zone, there is a very good chance you wont be able to stop in time for the yellow.

This is just 1 of the increased risks speeding brings to our roadways.

The number of people who use terms like idiot, loser, beta etc for people who obey the limit is astounding. Ive heard more speeders say that limit followers should have their lisences removed than vice versa.

The problem is their supporters look at burning the world as progress.

The cost of living means i typically work 10 hours a day, 6 days a week to make ends meet. As someone who moved to a new city in the past few years, this lifestyle has absolutely crippled me socially. There are other factors that have made it difficult to meet people, such as dependance on social media for socializing, but the hours i work is definitely a major factor. My job tends to have me working with/for people 2-3 decades older than me so there hasn't been a ton of opportunity to meet friends through work.

The legalization of marijuana came after there was evidence for decades it was mostly harmless. We have had evidence for decades that speed makes things more dangerous on city streets. There are better ways to get you there faster than jeapordizing public safety.

Wants our government to concede to trump then complains that they nearly need to be threatened to do their job. Pretty sure give up Canadian sovereignty is not listed as the role of our politicians.

Speed cameras are often implemented in areas where heavy pedestrian traffic exists or a history of car crashes has happened. The goal of the cameras is to reduce speed to prevent crashes and reduces injury and death. The solution is not to raise speed limits just because drivers feel entitled to not follow the limit.

Imagine if we did this for other laws. Well people are still murdering each other even though its illegal so we might as well make murder legal. This may seem like an extreme example but speed is one of the biggest factors in how deadly a crash is, so just increasing the speed limit is basically saying we are okay with more people dying so long as they think traffic is moving faster.

Somewhere with 500,000 people can definitely make use of transit. Maybe not mass but definitely trams, buses and regional rail. Also active infrastructure like bike lanes (granted provinces seem to be at war with cyclists recently).

This was not what pierre had in mind when he thought he'd be making history

MAGA labor lottery when?

Not to mention that reducing drivers often reduces car crashes and injuries, so long as the drivers that switch to biking are adequately protected. So overall there will be less strain on healthcare and emergency services. This is even before factoring in the health benefits cycling has over cars. Someone who switches to biking for 20 years is likely to have less health concerns as they age.

I've never heard the 1/4 version of that saying. I've always known it as 6 in one, half dozen in the other.

I like how it seems he keeps gripping it throughout the whole ordeal.