Road design, safety and Vision Zero

[Acitta]

NZ is great but also suffers from car primacy, especially outside of Wellington. The thing that is completely bonkers is that there are raised crosswalks that are also signed "pedestrians give way". WTF?!

I haven't actually thought about exit turns from NZ roundabouts. I think they're not straight lines. Sometimes people signal their exits, suggesting it's not a straight line.

Not a fan of beg buttons on roundabouts. Would be better to have people detectors and signals.

(Off topic: I just wrote thoughts on Can't Get There From Here: New Zealand Passenger Rail since 1920, at https://patricklam.ca/post/20230107-cant...from-here/. Here I am sitting in a taxi on the 401 from Pearson because I'm not up for complicated transit things after 24 hours in a plane.)

Yeah, I booked a flight to Toronto with the intention to take transit...only to remember that there is no transit from Toronto to KW on a weekend...and so got to spend 500 on a Toronto hotel.

You could have taken the #40 GO bus from the airport to Square One and the #25 GO bus from there to Kitchener. Not as good as taking the UP Express to the GO train, but it is wrong to say that there is no transit from Toronto to KW on the weekend.