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Are going fast its more likely that the red light running and speeding i think is the critical factor in causing collisions and also in the severity of the collisions. So how do we approach arterial traffic calming . We basically want streets not to have the characteristics that will make speeding attract ive so that means primary Traffic Signals or other types of devices to make sure vehicles are controlled in that way and streets have an appropriate number of traffic lanes as narrow as possible and theres a lot of research that narrow traffic lanes can be one tool to help slow down traffic and design streets to be attract ive to all modes. This is a picture that was a 6 a 6 lane street as you can see there was not even any medians and kal Trans Department went in there and these are the kind of situations where you have very low traffic volumes and 6 lanes of traffic the ....
Streets to being streets that are more in out of the way areas and we all agree movement of these thousands of vehicles a a day has to be done in a safe matter and how to achieve that and we dont want to do things to arterials that would encourage people to use other streets so if we effect arterial traffic. Speeding can also vary depending on the time of day so even talking about streets being congested during the day there may be times when they are relatively empty ier and thats a situation where you may have speeding at night on weekends or during the middle of the day. As megan and others have talked about the city now has a map where weve concentrated the highest injury streets and if you look at this map and compare with the arterial map you will see a big overlap and thats a function of the fact its more likely for people to get into collisions on these major streets by the fact they are carrying so much traffic and have a lot of bicycle and pedestrian activity so theres a larg ....
The arterial map you will see a big overlap and thats a function of the fact its more likely for people to get into collisions on these major streets by the fact they are carrying so much traffic and have a lot of bicycle and pedestrian activity so theres a large overlap and over all injury maps and the Arterial Network in the city and unsafe speed id like to emphasize if you are speeding you are more likely to run a red light or be unable to yield to a pedestrian or lose control of your vehicle in a situation where somebody else is trying to turn and so forth so speeding is not just by itself its probably behind a secondary or third factor behind most collisions when you are going slower you can react to unanticipated things in a better fashion and theres also the fact that all of these collisions can be can be non injury or fatal and when you are going fast its more likely that the red light running and speeding i think is the ....
Speeding i think is the critical factor in causing collisions and also in the severity of the collisions. So how do we approach arterial traffic calming . We basically want streets not to have the characteristics that will make speeding attract ive so that means primary Traffic Signals or other types of devices to make sure vehicles are controlled in that way and streets have an appropriate number of traffic lanes as narrow as possible and theres a lot of research that narrow traffic lanes can be one tool to help slow down traffic and design streets to be attract ive to all modes. This is a picture that was a 6 a 6 lane street as you can see there was not even any medians and kal Trans Department went in there and these are the kind of situations where you have very low traffic volumes and 6 lanes of traffic theres no traffic controls to stop you and those are the kinds of ....