Many speed limits are arbitrary and useless.
A good example is one where I live where they changed a 50km/h to 30km/h. There have never been any accidents or complaints by people that live here. The real reason? So people would be inclined to stop at one of the bistros.
I don’t know how many times I’ve been wanting to paint that 3 into 8.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
A road near me added obnoxious speed bumps in an industrial zone that was already reduced to 50km/h solely for the gambling seniors to get to the RSL (Returned Services League, a glorified casino for seniors/veterans), again built in an INDUSTRIAL ZONE with frequent semi-trucks.
Interesting that the drivers didn’t notice the “increased” speed limit. Either it wasn’t convincing or people don’t pay enough attention to speed limit signs. Probably the latter.
Speed limit signs don’t determine how fast people actually drive, road design does.
Exactly!
People in Houston generally drive 30mph above the speed limit anyway so this is just business as usual.
(I hate it by the way. Houston drivers are so incredibly dangerous. It’s absolutely insane.)
I sympathize, but I honestly think that anywhere that’s that car-dependent has reckless and aggressive drivers. It’s why I get so frustrated with drivers that insist that bike lanes, transit, etc. will make traffic worse - it would literally do the opposite by taking cars off the road.
That’s the wrong direction. We need to be putting up fake speed limit signs with lower speed limits.
Wtf kind of “activism” is this?
I mean it does effectively demonstrate something Strong Towns advocates. People drive to the speed of the road, not the posted limit.
But yeah, agreed
And there’s people that drive as fast as they think they can no matter the limit.
That’s a part of it as well. If you make roads visibly narrow, with nearby obstacles, not a lot of people would feel comfortable speeding down that street, even if they were inclined to speed. Example:
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Whereas in America, suburban “neighborhoods” have extremely wide streets with houses at extreme setbacks in an attempt to limit the danger to… cars, I guess, for their reckless driving. Everything about them screams “you can drive whatever speed you want, you won’t be hitting anything”. Example:
