08-31-2017, 09:34 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-31-2017, 09:59 PM by Pheidippides.)
(08-31-2017, 02:13 PM)tomh009 Wrote: What protects pedestrians on a sidewalk if a vehicle hits it at 50 km/h, 70 km/h or 100 km/h? Exactly the same as for an island. What would you like, a concrete wall? Won't someone please think of the children?
1) Someone already mentioned that there is no safe place to, quickly, if you do need to avoid vehicle hitting the island.
2) The regional preferred width for curbs 50cm; these curbs are much narrower (20cm? which would be equal to the regional minimum width).
3) Hard to tell for sure, especially until the final asphalt is down, but the curbs also look lower than a curb at the side of a road.
4) Most sidewalks now are built with a landscaped or hardscaped buffer of at least 50cm between the sidewalk and the road.
5) Another difference is that on a sidewalk you are travelling parallel to traffic and in a crossing you are travelling perpendicular to traffic; the number of potential interactions is far greater.
Other safety measures that could have easily been taken:
1) Lower the speed limit in this section to at least 50 from the current 60.
2) Narrow the lanes.
3) Crosswalk markings/signage.
Everyone move to the back of the bus and we all get home faster.