Winnipeg and Edmonton are both looking at trial projects of lowering speed limits in residential neighbourhoods to 30 or 40 km/hr instead of the present 50.
Thoughts?
Thoughts?
ah yes, the study from the 80's, completely irrelevant todayA pedestrian struck by a car traveling 50km/hour has a 10% survival rate, a pedestrian struck by a car traveling 30km/hour has a 90% survival rate.
I agree, no rules are good if not enforced. There is a practical issue of costs on case-by-case basis. With technology improvements, speed cameras should be getting more cost-efficient these days (and can double as red-light cameras). If not, nothing's wrong with other options: random police checks or speed bumps where appropriate.my thoughts are this people will speed regardless of the speed limit,
I say leave it at 50 and enforce the rules to zero tolerance with speed cameras and problem solved.
As of now, cameras on some BC intersections are being reconfigured to issue automated speeding tickets. The arguments in the government press release seem to sound right to me.photo radar, if it was anywhere near as successful as they like to believe, then why is Alberta's numbers no better than BC's where it isn't allowed?
Maybe stay current, the policy has already been successfully implemented in major European cities, New York and areas of Seattle. In Vancouver, the idea is to first implement the speed changes to areas and neighbourhoods which experience high frequency commuter cut through traffic which brings high volumes of car traffic on to low volume designed streets. Most intersections in residential neighborhoods remain unchanged from their original design except that Vancouver abandoned uncontrolled intersections in the 1990s. The concrete sidewalk outside my house is stamped 1906, do you think in 1906 hundreds of cars commuting to the suburbs were cutting off of the congested arterials onto side streets - this wasn't even happening in the 1990s.ah yes, the study from the 80's, completely irrelevant today
the first person killed by a car, speed was something like 6 miles an hour
before the hounddog looking school board trustee got elected to Edm city council, we had no school zone speed limit, it was 50km/h, like the rest of the side roads/unmarked
the bureaucrats, who actually run the city, came back 3X in the last 15yrs telling the morons there was no need for one
then the anal retentive POS got elected
where were the bodies of all the poor little children piled up in Edm for the past 50 yrs?
where are the stats to prove that putting in school zones drastically reduced (death) the numbers that weren't even in the teens to begin with?
let alone actual accidents?
anal retentive POS, emotion, that's what's driving this bullshit
the speed limits in cities, as well as on highways, for the past 40yrs haven't changed
cars are nowhere near the same, you can't even compare the steering/brakes/suspension to cars from old
the roads are different, design, weather
the amount of vehicles on the roads are way up, miles driven way up
deaths by car accident are down, statistically, per driver, per km driven
most accidents in cities, in intersections, left turns, rear ends, in other words, bad road design
highways, volume, weather, just look at long weekends, more people on the road, winter/rain, it isn't rocket science
it's bullshit
it's about anal retentive POS trying to make an issue using emotion instead of facts
like most of the twitter crowd, extremists out there
the amount of people dying in car accidents, stable in real numbers since the 70's
photo radar, if it was anywhere near as successful as they like to believe, then why is Alberta's numbers no better than BC's where it isn't allowed?
if 50 was too fast, where are all the bodies from the past? present?
statistically, there is no problem, people are going to get hit, they are going to die, just like since the first car was put on the road
cause people are stupid and make mistakes
It's only a tax on assholes.Tax grab $$$
If you cant spot a photo radar vehicle then you deserve the ticket for outright stupidity.....same goes for intersections that have cameras for both red light infractions as well as speed on green.When you are driving you should be aware of everything and most especially your route.I should know as I do it for a living.Lol, but in Alberta they have photo radar. So speed limits can have great returns for the city...
Last year when I was in Calgary I got 2 speeding tickets on the way to the airport. Photo radar. One doing 66 in a 60, other doing 87 in a 80... total was $365.... lol fuck....
and the picture of the plate showed a little scratch near the plate....
Of course the registered car owner got the ticket. No way to prove who is driving with photo radar. That’s why it’s a cash grab.Lol, stupid, not hardly man. I am from BC, no photo radar here, I do not even know what the vehicles look like. I was visiting my Doctor friend in Calgary. Driving on 16th avenue(#1 highway) and #2 highway to the airport where there is many different speed limits. So ya okay, my mistakes..
Now here is the real stupid, it was her car, she gets the tickets in the mail, and was not even driving the car... now that is stupid !!
Parking tickets work the same way...the owner gets the ticket...even if you are not driving the car.Of course the registered car owner got the ticket. No way to prove who is driving with photo radar. That’s why it’s a cash grab.
Ah but BC used to have photo radar and it was just as much of a cash grab.It was the BC Liberals who got rid of it as an election promise....and they kept the promise.Lol, stupid, not hardly man. I am from BC, no photo radar here, I do not even know what the vehicles look like. I was visiting my Doctor friend in Calgary. Driving on 16th avenue(#1 highway) and #2 highway to the airport where there is many different speed limits. So ya okay, my mistakes..
Now here is the real stupid, it was her car, she gets the tickets in the mail, and was not even driving the car... now that is stupid !!
that’s ita low-tech, economical solution in speed bumps. Don't like drivers that race up to crosswalks and slam on the brakes.