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Design the street like the barrel of a gun, and people will drive like bullets. 1/x
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/story/2020-12-07/12-year-old-bicyclist-dies-after-being-struck-by-impaired-driver-near-costa-mesa-skate-park%3f_amp=true
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/story/2020-12-07/12-year-old-bicyclist-dies-after-being-struck-by-impaired-driver-near-costa-mesa-skate-park%3f_amp=true
This is a 1-mile-long stretch that serves 3 schools and a large park. The pic is after a $4M “improvement” that included a new separated bike lane, a stop sign, crosswalks, and resurfacing.
Although many of the ingredients were right, we must have followed the wrong recipe. 2/x
Although many of the ingredients were right, we must have followed the wrong recipe. 2/x
I look at how other countries design their streets around schools and parks and wonder what is stopping us from doing the same. 3/x https://twitter.com/DutchUrbanIndex/status/847999746799267840
But even if we want to do things our own way, we have the tools. @NACTO has provided us with an incredible set of guides in the last few years that we disregard to our peril.
Seriously - what is it going to take for us to change? 4/fin https://nacto.org/publication/urban-street-design-guide/street-design-elements/vertical-speed-control-elements/speed-table/
Seriously - what is it going to take for us to change? 4/fin https://nacto.org/publication/urban-street-design-guide/street-design-elements/vertical-speed-control-elements/speed-table/
(And don’t say bandwidth. There are hundreds of volunteers ready to donate time and money, there are grants available, there are precendents, there are nonprofits willing to assist.)
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