@thukflish12 @WestCoastSafety Drivers are generally expected to enter the bus lane as a right turn lane and lead their turn by a few hundred ft or a block. There could be permissible shared use where traveling down it would be stretching the rules rather than flat out breaking it.
@emveezee This is also an example of the frequency-severity tradeoff. Wider lanes improve visibility and reduce the chance of crashing in the samaritan trap, but the crash would've been more severe instead of resulting in no bad injuries.
@Zackcy @kevinh8swriting @ClarissaOakes2 @JoePostingg You are conflating different things. People are expected to slow down for the conditions, with the goal of not causing injury. Zero crashes is not, and never has been an achievable goal system wide.
@GetAroundSafely @Qagggy If you don't want traffic volume, then don't build a road at all. The wide or nothing polarized approach is very successful, examples include superblocks and major airports.
Small roads with mixed traffic are only ever appropriate for parking lots.
@Penalosa_G This is not how scale works. Barcelona has half the population density of Manhattan. If a city has the economic factors to support skycrapers, as the projects you're nimbying clearly do, then skyscrapers should be built!
@ESGhound desalination for household water is absurdly cheap. relative basis is meaningless when the base price is next to 0. household access to clean water is not an issue because homes use so little of it. The problem is desalination is far less practical for industry and agriculture.
@MartinMillnert@peterrhague i hate on street parking, but one of the safety benefits is the traffic calming effect. Driver probably would have went faster. The driver would have had more visibility, but any crash that did occur would have been worse due to the added speed.
@R_Behr@uckema The built environment has bad visibility issues for low vehicles. It's why go karts are not serious micromobility even though they handle better than upright bikes. SUVs and trucks really don't create as much of a visibility issue for my prius as poorly trimmed shrubs.
@Penalosa_G@CarlosMorenoFr Large scale is better for people. You can bring the effective proximity closer by improving transit service. Or better, develop local mixed use industry and bring the proximity home.
@fengshuiHealing@Penalosa_G Skyscraper districts tend to have massive communities who fill meeting halls. These communities are just based on common interest rather than being stuck together.
Skyscrapers improve quality of life, including all sorts of service availability and climate mitigation.