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About that: If you take a look at the barrier:
It has reflectors on the front and it seems to have a big plastic reflector-pole-thingy on each side. The one in front was destroyed by the car running over it. It has reflectors on the side. It is also a low speed inner city road and that barrier is not coming from out of nowhere. You have to see that as a driver
I don't have an exact way to measure but the road is almost as large as some highways where I live (France, not USA).
Yes any driver that hits it is at fault, but everybody would be safer if the road was designed thinner so cars would naturally slow down, having the bike lane behind the parked cars not in front to reduce the odds of being doored etc...
If the infrastructure treats people like they're robots that will perfectly respect speed limits because there is a sign, it will not work and just be dangerous. The infrastructure should be designed so that the most natural speed and the intuitive path is the right one.
FYI: I have a driving license, but I don't own a car and bike almost everywhere. I really don't like car, I also don't like infrastructure making cars more dangerous than they need to be.
Yeah but that's not gonna happen in the USA. They do their god damn corn fields in grids - so roads are for sure going to be straight and wide.