Sorry - I didn't mean to get in the middle of a personal conversation, but it is a public discussion...
I didn't say to design it so that there are no mistakes. I said to design it so that when mistakes are made, the chance of lives being lost is greatly reduced. Freeway design works fine for long distances but it does NOT work for cities. What would work to make the city streets safer would be to take measures to reduce the average speed which cars travel, as well as decreasing the likelihood of accidental interaction between automobiles and human beings. If the police don't know where to look, I don't know what's wrong with them. How about starting with, I don't know, any one-way stretch of main (and while we are at it, cannon)?
I was just curious because I can't believe that someone who lives close to Main cannot see that it is a problem. But I must have mis-interpreted your earlier messages since you
do see that the driving is a problem (As well as disobedient pedestrians).
Things work fine if you cross when you are supposed to, but things happen - bad judgement calls, or who knows, honest mistakes, laziness, etc. My main point is that we cannot eliminate these incidents but by calming the traffic through the core, we can minimize the injuries associated with them.
Everywhere else, we see a value in calming traffic where pedestrian activity is higher - school zones, residential streets, even parking lots. Why can't we extend this logic to the main through streets in our core?