Road design, safety and Vision Zero

[Bob_McBob]

Tom Flood (who won an award at OBS this year), wrote a letter to Hamilton City Council as a result of the fatal collision this week.

No "modest proposal", no sarcasm, just blunt truth.

I was just thinking about this the other day after a post about Vision Zero on Kitchener's Facebook page. It's so hard to have a meaningful conversation about road safety without it inevitably turning into complaints about the war on cars. Literally the only thing that matters to many drivers is maximizing vehicle throughput by keeping roads as wide as possible and speeds as high as possible. Even something like a lane reduction that objectively has zero impact on congestion is bad because it makes people feel like cars aren't being given the highest priority. I remind people over and over that we're talking about road safety, but it doesn't matter.