Road design, safety and Vision Zero

[danbrotherston]

Every single Victoria St intersection is a nightmare at the best of times, when people are only under the influence of their phones, and not drugs...

I'm curious if there are any statistics on whether or not safe road design has a significant impact on the severity of DUI accident outcomes.

I suspect there are studies somewhere, but you can also infer it, places with safer roads still have drunk drivers, and yet they still have fewer or no deaths.

That being said, I think the BIGGER impact on drunk driving is walkability. Most people who choose to drive drunk would probably prefer not to drive drunk, but often, they have limited other transportation options--especially late at night (which this was not). The fact that bars have parking minimums is by far the most insane thing about our transportation planning policy.  In fact, I think bars should have no parking, like, parking maximums of 0, I don't care about employees, they can get to the bar the same way the patrons should HAVE to get there.