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Let's just take take ALL the cars off the road or mandate that ALL pedestrians must wear an inflatable Sumo Wrestling suit!
Life is full of Risk, and has anybody assessed the environmental damage from longer, fuel burning journeys?
Reducing speed limit can lead to more death due to driver's fatigue on longer trips. There is always trade off.
Just pull over and rest.
That doesn't apply here as this is to do with residential / highly urbanised local streets.
Car brain.
If the speed limit was 0km/h, no lives would be lost.
You dumb fucking muppet.
At the same time, if the speed limit were 100km/h in an urban zone, the death rate would skyrocket. Ultimately I think it's reasonable to say it's about finding the best compromise between speed and safety, and in an urban environment, it's actually less of a compromise than you might think.
In areas with traffic, the determining factor for how fast a driver gets to their destination is not speed, but throughput: how many cars go past a certain point (eg. a traffic light) in a certain time interval. However, as speeds go up, so do safe breaking distances at a rate proportional to the speed. So you don't actually get where you want to go significantly faster by increasing speeds, because the rate at which cars pass remains practically constant.
The number of people killed while walking or riding in big cities has increased by almost a quarter since 2022
Sure let’s blame cars and not ebikes and scooters being ridden by absolute fuckwits who ignore the law and end up dead.
Not once has this been taken to an election across the country so it shouldn’t be implemented.
I think that's largely in part to the enormous yanktanktinydicktrucks and 4wd's that cunts drive
Because driving slow means your dick is too small.
Or something like that.