Urban Spite Design. Another example is sprinklers in shop doorways to prevent homeless people from sheltering from the rain while the shops are closed.
Unironically yes. Traffic jams when the road gets full, and people have a time budget for traveling. So by slowing traffic down, you reduce demand, and thus the risk of traffic jams. Which in turn leads to a better experience for everybody. Bonus points if you also provide alternatives for car travel.
The issue is most of our roadways are designed like strodes.
We should design streets as streets, and design roads as roads.
Roads have no cut curbs or driveways, no parking is allowed on a road. Traffic lights and intersections are minimized and roundabouts are preferred. Roads are like low capacity highways in a sense. Trails run beside roads as opposed to sidewalks to minimize conflicts between pedestrians and vehicles.
Streets are narrow and lower capacity, sidewalks and pedestrians are common. Street parking is allowed. Curbs and driveways are common. Speeds are low and intersections are other signalized or stop signs are used.
If they really wanted to reduce the speed of vehicles and increase safety they would introduce aggressive road design.
It’s the same idea behind preventing people from skating on benches. You can’t fine it away, so they put bars on benches to make it impossible.
This would be how you take a strode and turn it into a actual street with proper.
Keep in mind though, the above is payed for by tax payers, i.e. all citizens regardless of if they speed or not, or have a car or not.
A camera is payed for ideally by the speeder, and any extra “revenue” should then go to the redesign of said streets, roads, and roadways.
proper what, you can’t leave us hanging like that!
A proper strode.
Camera profits probably go to cops.
Gotta pay for all those wrongful death judgements you can’t weasel your way out of and the cost of moving the killer one town over.
Most of it goes to the companies running the cameras from what I’ve seen.
The bars are mostly to prevent people from sleeping on the benches
Urban Spite Design. Another example is sprinklers in shop doorways to prevent homeless people from sheltering from the rain while the shops are closed.
Because those doorways will be covered in shit and piss otherwise. Doorways are not the solution.
I know I was just trying to be less dystopian.
You live in a dystopia we are beyond trying to pretend.
Depends on a lot of factors. But often funding a project that generates money is easier to push than one that creates some abstract value
Unironically yes. Traffic jams when the road gets full, and people have a time budget for traveling. So by slowing traffic down, you reduce demand, and thus the risk of traffic jams. Which in turn leads to a better experience for everybody. Bonus points if you also provide alternatives for car travel.
Can’t speed when the roads have lower capacity and the other cars are in the way.
Why not eliminate roads entirely?
No speeding or traffic!
The issue is most of our roadways are designed like strodes.
We should design streets as streets, and design roads as roads.
Roads have no cut curbs or driveways, no parking is allowed on a road. Traffic lights and intersections are minimized and roundabouts are preferred. Roads are like low capacity highways in a sense. Trails run beside roads as opposed to sidewalks to minimize conflicts between pedestrians and vehicles.
Streets are narrow and lower capacity, sidewalks and pedestrians are common. Street parking is allowed. Curbs and driveways are common. Speeds are low and intersections are other signalized or stop signs are used.
This is a strode:
Just FYI the term is spelled stroad.
It’s not the worst idea I’ve heard. I’m listening.
I’m down.
Road traffic? Great! Drivers are less productive and scientifically worse people than non-drivers.