General Road and Highway Discussion

[tomh009]

A second pedestrian has been hit in Kitchener today, on a residential street.  

We must demand that our road design guides prioritize safety over speed.

https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/man-in-crit...-1.3768449

I agree on prioritizing safety. But we know nothing so far about this incident, except that it happened on (what I would call) an arterial suburban road, so it's too early to say whether this particular accident should impact the design guides.

What would be worthwhile, albeit far more work, would be to look at each of the 2017 pedestrian fatalities (how many were there?) and see how the particulars of each accident compare to the street in question and the current design guides for such a street. (Many streets were designed and built before such design guides existed.) This could provide enough data to actually influence the future of the design guides.

Sadly, I fear no one hear has the time or the inclination to take on such a project.  Maybe someone at TriTAG would be interested?