03-18-2024, 11:26 PM
(03-18-2024, 08:24 PM)ac3r Wrote: That isn't the same as saying it's okay for people to get killed in automobile accidents, though. Nobody likes such news and it isn't a radical position to say so.
It’s not the same, mostly because explicitly saying that pedestrian deaths are OK is obviously abhorrent. Just continuing with the status quo is only abhorrent to those who understand that things could be otherwise.
Quote:But yeah, a big problem is funding. A 6 inch concrete curb isn't going to stop a vehicle from smashing into a pedestrian, cyclist or train. That seems to be how we do things here, though. Waterloo Region is like a Wish.com tier city LARPing as a big one, but doesn't want to act like one.
I don’t think funding is a problem at all. By paring back unnecessary road construction (mostly trimming motor vehicle lanes carefully where they don’t help), I claim we could free up enough resources to build more cycling infrastructure than has ever been seriously proposed. Or, concrete example (literally!): consider the Fairway Road bridge; it wouldn’t have cost more to build its bicycle lanes properly, separated from motor vehicles by a barrier (instead of separated from the sidewalk by a barrier).