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Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish • 3 years ago

Why safety and vehicle speed are incompatible goals for street design

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Why safety and vehicle speed are incompatible goals for street design

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Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish • 3 years ago

Nearly all transportation agencies will tell you that safety is their absolute top priority, but if you look more closely, you’ll discover that—in practice—i...

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If only we’d invented some sort of sloped surface. Maybe call it a “ramp”?
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  Scaling a 4 meter high ramps on every intersection sounds like a fucking nightmare
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    Yes, because no one anywhere has ever built a ramp that made sense.
    
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