• KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world
    11·
    1 month ago

    Speed limits don’t control how fast drivers go, road design does. If they want to increase safety they should make the roads narrow and curvy while adding bigger sidewalks and bike lanes.

  • ramble81@lemm.ee
    112·
    1 month ago

    That’s like 18mph. That’s insanely slow unless the place is super dense. It would literally take me hours to cross my city alone at that speed.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      1 month ago

      My neighborhood is 20mph and it costs me more concentration to keep it that low than cruise 25-30 and be on the lookout. Apparently concentration on riding my brakes is safer.

    • rabber@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      21·
      1 month ago

      It’s a dense city but 30kmh is way too slow. For such a left leaning city pretending to care about the environment, this is dumb considering how inefficient it is to drive at that speed

      • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
        11·
        1 month ago

        Ridiculously inefficient. My best economy is at 47mph. I get about 20% of my peak below 20mph.

  • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    1 month ago

    Looking up the area you’ll find that it’s

    1. The oldest settlement north of San Francisco. Meaning that the streets weren’t planned for cars to start with.
    2. Densely populated.
    3. Approximately 3km^2 by my immediate estimate (it’s shaped like a right triangle, each catheti about 2km and the hypotenuse bulging slightly outward)

    All in all, without having done more research than look at wikipedia and Google maps for 20sec each. I’d say that the area seems extremely walkable and that a speed limit of 30 makes sense. Nothing is more than 30min away by foot and 5min by bike. Have a bus drive the road surrounding the area and non-service vehicles can be completely banned.

    • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
      2·
      2 months ago

      Nah i have had speeds around 40 on my bike in a 30 zone many times and the cameras never triggered. I dont know why tho, maybe its a fake speed camera.

      Its a strip of road with no houses or visual obstructions or anything btw so i dont think i was a danger to anyone.

      • tostiman@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        2 months ago

        How would you know if the camera triggered on your bike? You’re not going to get a ticket in the mail 🤔

        • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
          1·
          1 month ago

          Cuz it has a flash that is very bright which also triggers during the day. Otherwise you wouldnt be able to see the car drivers face in the shot. Idk if there are ones with other types of imaging that dont require a flash tho so maybe you have a point.

      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        the cameras never triggered. I dont know why tho

        Maybe they’re calibrated to only react to objects over a certain size (to avoid speeding tickets for birds) and that size is larger than you plus your bicycle? 🤷

        Its a strip of road with no houses or visual obstructions or anything btw so i dont think i was a danger to anyone.

        Agreed. Speed limit enforcement needs to be much more contextual. It would make it a lot more complicated and difficult for those on the enforcement side, sure, but it would save a lot of people from getting fines they can’t afford for essentially doing nothing wrong.