10-07-2015, 11:07 AM
(10-07-2015, 09:43 AM)Canard Wrote: That's true, and 10 km/h is safer than 30, and 5 is safer than...
I guess the response to this would be that 60 kilometres per hour limits might get some motorists to their destination a bit faster than 50 kilometres per hour limits, and 80 kilometres per hour would cause even less delay. Actually, at 32 kilometres per hour, studies have found only a 5% chance of death in the case of a car striking a human being, which is why many many cities have adopted a 30 kilometre an hour speed limit for residential streets. That's not much faster than the bicycle you are briefly stuck behind.
Your claims that allowing two-abreast cycling (while still legally requiring that cyclists get out of the way of your car!) will cause gridlock sound a lot like the knee-jerk responses we see from people in the vein of Rob Ford who shout "traffic chaos!" every time any accommodation is made for any road user that isn't an automobile. Allowing cyclists to ride side-by-side simply won't have a meaningful impact on traffic speeds on arterial streets, and if it did on residential streets, it would be welcome.