I’ve definitely come around to speeding as a civil engineering problem more than anything else (partly due to Lemmy but started on that other platform).
In general people don’t take speeding seriously nor believe they will be a victim of dangerous driving. I don’t see how police enforcement does anything to change that. I’m sure it does for a few but in general, no. It even causes worse situations when you have people with their license taken away, no way to get insurance, yet have to rely on cars. Our current approach to speeding is just busy work for police and a tax on the unlucky.
Yet different road design helps people drive at a reasonable speed by default, reduced collisions, protects the more vulnerable travelers from car travelers, and gives people multiple choices to get around. Most importantly we can have more scalable choices than simply “add another lane”
Lets build infrastructure such that police are not spending so much time enforcing speed limits where we all know people will speed right up when the cop is gone
I’ve definitely come around to speeding as a civil engineering problem more than anything else (partly due to Lemmy but started on that other platform).
In general people don’t take speeding seriously nor believe they will be a victim of dangerous driving. I don’t see how police enforcement does anything to change that. I’m sure it does for a few but in general, no. It even causes worse situations when you have people with their license taken away, no way to get insurance, yet have to rely on cars. Our current approach to speeding is just busy work for police and a tax on the unlucky.
Yet different road design helps people drive at a reasonable speed by default, reduced collisions, protects the more vulnerable travelers from car travelers, and gives people multiple choices to get around. Most importantly we can have more scalable choices than simply “add another lane”
Lets build infrastructure such that police are not spending so much time enforcing speed limits where we all know people will speed right up when the cop is gone
DOWN WITH STROADS!