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Originally Posted by lrt's friend
My point is that we set a ridiculous speed limit, fine people heavily, often those not familiar with the city and leave a bad taste for those visiting downtown.
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Is this really about visitors to the city? If that was the case, wouldn't the effects be even worse in Montreal where they have completely closed 11 urban streets to traffic, including a huge chunk of their main drag? And yet their tourist visits have bounced back much faster than Ottawa's. I don't think that there is any actual evidence that tourists dislike these efforts to make downtowns more pedestrian-friendly. On the other hand, there is lots of evidence that suburbanites are the ones complaining about the speed limits.
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Why 30 kph? Yeah, yeah, safety, but it could also be 20 kph. That would be even safer.
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Why 30? Because it is a good balance between preserving mobility and improving safety. If you look at the stats, 40 is considerably less safe for pedestrians.
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