https://globalnews.ca/news/7667739/c...-speed-limits/
https://www.calgary.ca/transportatio...ed-limits.html
May 31, assume 40 if not posted. Red lines should be marked for 50.
https://globalnews.ca/news/7667739/c...-speed-limits/
https://www.calgary.ca/transportatio...ed-limits.html
May 31, assume 40 if not posted. Red lines should be marked for 50.
Cocoa $8,000 per tonne.
Haha, good ol' City, way to complicate a simple change.
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Planning to not drive the first week of June.
They'll be in full force to show the hooligans they've given tickets to that would otherwise have killed children and ripped families apart.
I'm just hoping my family can survive until then. Every day is a gamble.
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This, I can't believe they are allowing this ludicrous 50kph business to continue until May 31st. Cars will be careening into houses left and rightThis quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Good old nanny state, amazing we made this long.
Really, I don't know how they allow us to drive motorcars in the first place.
Life was simpler, and likely safer in the days of the horse.
Unless your last name was Reeve.
If they would remove the silly 25.5 km/h electronic limitation on my kickscooter, I figure it would be the same speed. 2/3rds horsepower ftw.
Cocoa $8,000 per tonne.
Same old story, the city reduces speed limits for no reason other than profit, and people will continue driving a speed at which they are comfortable which will almost certainly be over 40km/h on most of those roads. Only now the tickets will be 10km/h bigger.
The biggest eye opener for me has always been photo radar in school zones - who cares if the same guy comes ripping through multiple times endangering a bunch of kids or whoever else, when that ticket arrives 2 weeks later in the mail, that'll teach em.
At least that's done in the guise of safety. Honestly, I'd be fine with them making them permanent like red light cams. Put up big signs so there are no excuses. Now it's actually safe.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Hiding in the shadows under an overpass getting people doing 15 over on Deerfoot or Glenmore though? GTFO.
I'm waiting for Lethbridge and other municipalities here to follow suit with similar legislation
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Can you change how drivers are trained/tested: No
Can you take away licenses from unsafe drivers: No and that is also logistically challenging
Can you substantially change your road network to make it safer: Not without ludicrous costs and tax implications
So they change the thing that's the lowest cost that looks like they are addressing the problem, speed limits. The same thing happens in local politics. This is the same reason all traffic control is done, to do "something" there are so many stop signs and other things out there that were put in place because they had to do "something". It gets interesting because there has been so much political interference with traffic control that they have actually then created new issues in which they have to do "something" else which then spirals out of control.
I used to do this on a small scale in a Municipality in Ontario. It's really quite a downward spiral. Honestly, if we could somehow improve driver training and driver standards a lot of this would get solved. Ontario, and I assume Alberta, has a database of all traffic accident reports, tracking causes, etc. It's quite fascinating data and if it was explored it would become quite clear that a lot of do "something" decisions have little impact on the causes of these accidents. I presented this several times to the council I reported to, and they told me in private that they know that it won't technically do anything, but they had to do "something, and several of them asked me to make it look like it would help. Which I believe is exactly what administration did in this case in the City of Calgary.
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Yes, there aren't that many levers to pull for traffic safety on the municipal level, so they do what they can.
A residential enforcement increase would be really unpopular, because it would be voters getting those tickets. Buncha signs? Nobody cares.
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Do they still build straight roads in Ontario? Pretty sure that's up to the municipality.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
There's lots cities can do. They just don't do it because it requires brainpower, and it's simply easier to pass some silly piece of legislation.
Communities like Mahogany are basically impossible to speed in. Roads are too tight, roads aren't straight, there's traffic circles and it's pretty clear where the crosswalks are.
Compare that to, say, Rocky Ridge, that has a four lane road with a median. That kind of stuff is really useless in a community, and no one asked for it, it's just what Calgary did back then.
Where my parents live in California they put dips in the road. No one speeds through those things lol.
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You're correct, but the changes you are talking about would have huge cost implications and would take a long period of time to implement across the entire City. Which was my third point above. They did talk about implementing new standards in new subdivisions, which is no cost to the City and if anything will reduce development costs.
Dips and speed bumps are not great in northern climates, not that we do that much snow clearing in Calgary on local roads. They also cause drainage issues which is a pretty common problem in the inner city.
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I'm not saying older communities need to rip everything out and start over, fact is there are simply specific locations that need to be remedied. This isn't hard to do nor is really all that expensive. It requires thought though and that's something that's in very short supply in govt.
There are a couple dips in the road by my place right in front of a school. They look intentional.
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Saskatoon council is looking at 40 and 30 now too, thanks fuckheads.
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Once again another useless post by JRSCOOLDUDE.
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Don't let the e-thugs and faggots get to you when they quote your posts and write stupid shit.^^ Fact CheckedOriginally posted by JRSC00LUDE
I say stupid shit all the time.
Some of the best policies I have seen are traffic calming, basically where you have to petition over a perceived speed issue at which point the Municipality evaluates it and if there is deemed to be a problem they have some set solutions like you are speaking of and it gets put on a list. They set aside a certain budget for it each year and chew away as they do it. I believe this is how they handle it in London. It's actually a pretty good way of going about it.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Back where I am from instead of lowering speed limits they decided that we need more stop signs, so there are a lot of 4 ways stops. It's quite infuriating to get around in that place.
“Traffic calming”
Aka artificially narrowing roads so you can barely get 2 vehicles through an intersection with massive sidewalk jut outs etc. Resulting in vehicles having to come to near stops to navigate around each other.
Seems like the worst of all worlds to me.
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Typically the only locations they should narrow is at crosswalks, which is effectively taking away the parking lane at any intersection. This reduces pedestrian crossing distance, and therefore time and makes sure that cars at not parked right at the end of the road obstructing view drivers in the intersection.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I laugh every time I am in Toronto where they have effectively created chicanes mid block on their streets.