@ironicallyunfun@LoganTMillsap More like 23 seconds. Speed is an average over an entire trip that includes many times when the vehicle is stopped or going very slow. Basically you don't save any time at all by speeding except on extended highway trips.
"We [traffic engineers] underestimate our role in perpetuating bad outcomes, as well as the role that better engineering can play in designing safer communities and streets."
https://t.co/QzuefbYqEV
The 20mph default limit for towns and villages in Wales was initiated and supported by Tories in Senedd. In 2020 Tories instructed Welsh Gov to implement a national 20 default. This is what one Tory Member of Senedd said. Also see https://t.co/qWIzAReSEN
Yesterday, public works passed a report that will see the City of #Winnipeg adopt a 30kmh speed limit on neighbourhood greenways along with traffic calming. They've also decided to maintain a 30 kmh speed limit on Lyndale, Wellington Crescent and Churchill drive over the summer!
@foxyjewishmama Monoculture is an abomination but the public space in front of ones house is the perfect place to see and converse with neighbors and have better community - would be if it weren't for the incessant automobiles.
Fav humble-but-super-effective traffic safety thing of the day: speed cushions, which are basically just speed bumps but with cut-outs near lane lines so ambulances/fire trucks/snow plows can drive over them without slowing down or bottoming out, but passenger cars can't.
@yitgordon@ctbrown1911 Where we live there is a real hazard of cyclists riding far too fast in pedestrian areas, and what do you know? The streets are dangerous for bikes / have no bike lanes.
After identifying a road where 95% of drivers were doing 10 over, with multiple crashes, @RoadmapCincy installed temporary rubber speed cushions. Speeding dropped immediately and drastically. Instead of years of studies & surveys, they piloted a solution. https://t.co/IDAX2cqc4v
"It's not the engineering dept's fault for dangerous design. The planners made us do it."
"It's not the planning dept's fault for dangerous design. The politicians made us do it."
Apparently if you want to plan & design infrastructure, politics is the place to be.
@_whitneywebb Destroying biodiversity, destroying the seabed, to get lithium for electric cars:
vacuuming up the ocean floor has disastrous unintended and far-reaching consequences.
destroying fragile desert habitats in the West to mine for cobalt
@elleprovocateur
https://t.co/YJEY1pZQic
Car valuations are now plummeting.
Some cars have declined in value as much as 30% y/y.
And these same people that took out these big loans are now "underwater".
Basically, they owe banks more on these cars than they are worth.
And the banks are well-aware of this...
You can see from this Google search on 20mph limits for last 24hrs just how many shire counties are setting 20mph as the new 30mph to make better places for communities. Its time to set 20mph as the urban/village default in England, just like Wales.
https://t.co/P1RJoBz2WI
My name is Daniel. I've been a farmworker for 26 years. It is very important that immigration reform pass so farmworkers can visit their relatives. I have family and friends who have gone 15-20 years without seeing their family. Congress must pass this bill. #WeFeedYou