General Road and Highway Discussion

[danbrotherston]

Looks like the region has a pre-road safety education survey out that will allow them to compare to a post-survey and evaluate how effective their campaign was after it runs next year.

I don't think they quite got the wording correct on this question:

Who do you think is responsible for making Waterloo Region roads safer? (Check all that apply.)

1. Motorists
   
2. Government
   
3. Waterloo Region Police Services
   
4. Cyclists and pedestrians
   
5. All of the above
   

Clearly the only one who can make the roads safer are the engineers who design them (government).

Everyone can make safer behaviour choices, but none of the other options can physically change the roads.

Yeah, clearly the intended answer is "all of the above"...ironically, I doubt "government" is even intended to be road design...more like "we'll change the few designs which show more injuries than expected"...and for all other issues, we'll do surveys like this.

It's for naught anyway, most people don't even consider the importance of design in usability and safety. I mean, never mind all the people that think they can't use computers because of some poorly designed websites (looking at you prestocard.ca) I know people who swear up and down the walls they're dumb because they walk into the same poorly designed door in our cafeteria that I do. Don't ask people about design, SHOW them good design.