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Re:Roads Are Getting Deadlier for Pedestrians by kop316 on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @10:28AM (#26567675)
> Make the road narrow, add curves to it, and suddenly people will do lower speeds naturally because they don't feel like they have as much of a buffer.

I am not sure how that would be possible where I live. This would involve destroying a bunch of residential homes to add curves (the neighborhood I am in goes back at least to the 1930s, as thats when the house I am in was originally built).

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Re:Roads Are Getting Deadlier for Pedestrians by NoSorryCannot on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @10:50AM (#26567925)
"Traffic calming" features are retrofitted to roads all the time. Things like bringing the curb outward (often creating divided bike lanes in the process), speed bumps, and adding center islands to intersections.
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Re:Roads Are Getting Deadlier for Pedestrians by dagw on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @10:33AM (#26567734)
How does narrowing roads lead to destroying houses? You can also add curves to road while narrowing it without changing the overall width of the road. If nothing else works just add speed bumps.
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Re:Roads Are Getting Deadlier for Pedestrians by kop316 on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @10:45AM (#26567866)
The roads where I live are quite narrow to begin with, and many houses do not have driveways, so street parking is the only choice for many houses. I don't think there is a possiblity of narrowing them in the first place.
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