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robertstandley
Jul 13, 2018
7:58 AM | Subject: City of Edmonton Office of Traffic Safety
Hi,
We all know that speed kills so even reductions of speed limits is just a poor compromise to reduce the numbers but deaths and severe injuries can still occur at the desired lower limits.
I’d say that if they really want to be effective they should immediately ban the development of contiguous road-curb-sidewalk infrastructure where there is no barrier between the road and sidewalk or require treed boulevards.
For existing such risks I’d say that a lot could be done during neighbourhood renewal. When they did our neighbourhood the left the sidewalks next to the road and didn’t move the sidewalk and add boulevards. Maybe they should come back and correct that error in design, or add bollards in such neighbourhoods. Downtown the removal of parking meters may be going in the wrong direction. However again heavy duty bollards could be installed along all the roads to reduce risks. Poles or bollards should be placed up stream of all bus stops starting with those here groups of people assemble such as at schools where large numbers of kids stand next to the road waiting for their busses or getting off buses.
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