Road design, safety and Vision Zero

[ijmorlan]

When talking about a crash on the 401 nobody ever describes it as "hundreds of people imprisoned" (though that's the way it may feel when I am driving there) even though it is exactly the same situation. That's why I call it fear mongering, which is maybe not the right term, but the point is, you wouldn't describe the same situation that way if caused by a crash instead of a protest.

OK, I think I understand better what you’re saying about crash vs. protest.

Although I have heard that police can be really bad at handling these situations. I have vague recollections of people being ticketed for reversing out; apparently they’re just supposed to sit there for hours, even though within well under an hour of the crash occurring it would be no problem for the police to organize a structured, managed, safe process of wrong-way-running the vehicles to the last interchange.