[MichaelS]

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The above is a map of every place a driver has sent a walking Calgarian to the hospital in the past 3 years. Unsurprisingly, downtown is the major hotspot.

The thing is, you can't just focus on improving walkability where people are getting hit. You'll notice that the areas with the least amount of incidents are also the least walkable.

When things are so dangerous for pedestrians, people just don't feel safe being outside of their car.

Do you have the data going back longer? Specifically, before the blanket 30 km/h speed limit on residential streets got passed? I remember during that debate it was held up as a major win for safety, but.... were those streets dangerous to begin with? Given that all of the points (well, I haven't looked with a microscope, but probably 99% of them) on that map happen on collector or larger roads, which Council didn't change the speed limits on, well, what was the point of lowering the speeds on the other roads?

 

[Woosh]

Do you have the data going back longer? Specifically, before the blanket 30 km/h speed limit on residential streets got passed? I remember during that debate it was held up as a major win for safety, but.... were those streets dangerous to begin with? Given that all of the points (well, I haven't looked with a microscope, but probably 99% of them) on that map happen on collector or larger roads, which Council didn't change the speed limits on, well, what was the point of lowering the speeds on the other roads?

The issue is that changing signs has little impact on the speed that people actually drive.

If we actually want to lower speeds you have to do more than change a 4 to a 3, you have to narrow roads and actually enforce the speed limit.

 

[HudsonA08]

I wonder why roads have to be so incredibly large in North America.....

 

[badc0ffee]

Cool, now do those Mercedes Sprinter vans they love in Europe.