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Triggered when somebody is going really fast but looks like an interesting use of new technology in school and work zones so its not throughout the city and its not there all the time but it could really be targeted strategically to help people be more aware of the speed limits in a targeted way could you just talk about automated enforcement cameras and just whether you you think thats a realistic change that we could make at the state possibly local level. Right. I think certainly based on the port land experience and you point out the vans thats a good point its very mobile can go to where the problem spot is as can an officer on a motorcycle for example, but its a much more efficient approach for the same level of staffing the camera can be taking pictures of every speeding vehicle as compared to an officer say pulling over someone and issuing a citation and five cars are speeding by that the camera attached to the van would pickup photographs of all of those vehicles so theres a b ....
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 ....
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 situations were trying ....