Comments by "RB 70" (@RB-bd5tz) on "" video.
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Recently, a couple of nearby cities reduced their default speed limits from 50 to 40 km/h (roughly 30 to 24 mph). Why? Supposedly, so a child/pedestrian would have a better chance of surviving if hit. Why NOW? Have our bodies become more fragile in recent years? Have we not known all these decades that slower speeds are safer? And - how much safer are they, really? Six mph matters that much? Speed is the ONLY factor, and not where or how the pedestrian is hit? Well, recently, my rather small city decided to do its own complete study and follow their lead, even though, as far as I know, no one has been hit in recent memory, and I've been here almost 20 years. All that time and money to do a study to implement a policy to ape the nearby cities, which they were probably going to do anyway, to improve on a statistic of zero pedestrian collision injuries/fatalities.
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Recently, a couple of nearby cities reduced their default speed limits from 50 to 40 km/h (roughly 30 to 24 mph). Why? Supposedly, so a child/pedestrian would have a better chance of surviving if hit. Why NOW? Have our bodies become more fragile in recent years? Have we not known all these decades that slower speeds are safer? And - how much safer are they, really? Six mph matters that much? Speed is the ONLY factor, and not where or how the pedestrian is hit? Well, recently, my rather small city decided to do its own complete study and follow their lead, even though, as far as I know, no one has been hit in recent memory, and I've been here almost 20 years. All that time and money to do a study to implement a policy to ape the nearby cities, which they were probably going to do anyway, to improve on a statistic of zero pedestrian collision injuries/fatalities.
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