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Originally Posted by Full Mountain
Survivability rates for pedestrians in vehicle collisions go from 95% at 30 to 15% at ~60. I hardly think that raising the speed limits around pedestrians is a right approach. Time to reorder our priorities, Chicago has recently changed from cars first to pedestrians first, then transit, bikes, and cars last. I think this is something that needs to be done ASAP in Calgary, part of this would be changing the default speed limit to 30 unless otherwise signed (most currently signed roads wouldn't need to be changed).
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Is back in 2009 ASAP enough for you? (see page 21 of the
CTP). Sure, you may not notice, since construction sites still block off top-priority pedestrian routes but not bottom-priority SOV roads. Since we still approve bottom-priority auto-oriented big box malls, without forcing them to put top-priority pedestrians and cyclists on top. Since there are still places without sidewalks for the top-priority pedestrian mode (places in the Beltline, for fuck's sake) and we will allow new communities with incomplete sidewalks, but would never allow them without bottom-priority roads.
But on paper, we totally have made pedestrians the priority.
And I actually agree; why not make 30 the default speed limit? And actually enforce the laws, rather than the ridiculous "everybody does it" approach we use now.
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