Walking in Waterloo Region

[danbrotherston]

Of course, I question your example too, driving past a school at midnight one should be cautious...it's midnight, so it's dark so visibility is poor.

Why do we tend to have lower speed limits near schools?

Because lots of kids are about.

That isn’t true at midnight.

What more do I need to say?

Now, that isn’t an argument that it’s OK to blitz past a school at 80km/h just because it’s the middle of the night, but the reason for the lower limit simply doesn’t exist all the time.

Obviously there could be kids anywhere, but hardly anybody thinks limits should be dropped across the board.

I’m more concerned with sidewalks that are right next to roads, including roads that are explicitly designed to move at fairly high speeds. There should be no such thing as a place where non-motor traffic is expected to go immediately beside 60km/h limit or higher motor traffic.

There is literally a massive push by most road safety advocates to drop the limit in residential areas to 30km/h (although most are willing to compromise on 40km/h). This is not "hardly anybody".

I do agree though, Curb faced sidewalks are terrible too.