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Wales lowers speed limit to 20 mph to cut car use and save lives
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this post was submitted on 06 Sep 2023
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They're not just lowering the speed limit. From the FAQ:
These 'softer' measures (which definitely are traffic calming) will be essential to make this plan a success. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada is going through a similar process of lowering speed limits in residential areas. The planning staff said they needed the speed lowered so they could implement these traffic calming measures, otherwise the speed limit would be higher than the street design can accommodate.
yeah there are places where you can add a hard separated a bike lane and rejig parking - not so much for the bikes, but to narrow the carriage way and reduce the 'natural' speed of the road.
i can understand not strictly calling paint traffic calming, but planters? what galaxy brain definition of traffic calming are they using where placing a box on the road isn't traffic calming?
My guess is the phrase "traffic calming" has negative connotations with the local general public due to poor implementation.
I've driven down streets that are 50km/h and I think most people would gladly do ≤60km/h. If that's too fast, there's many ways to 'softly' calm the speed like narrowing the road, chicanes, paving stones, etc. Instead, they have speed bumps ever couple kms so drivers slow to a crawl for the bump, then accelerate hard to >70km/h, then brake hard to go over the next bump.