The Federal Highway Administration quietly stripped bike lanes and other safety recommendations from a key list of best practices. Critics say those measures are proven to cut crashes and save lives.

Bike lanes, variable speed limits, speed safety cameras, appropriate speed limits for all road users, and road diets

Were all the things removed

our traffic fatalities by 100,000 inhabitants far exceeds that of many industrialized countries and puts the U.S. in the company of Chile and Costa Rica

  • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    4 days ago

    Speed cameras (and speed traps generally) are usually set up to catch cars that are just passing through town, not the locals. So fighting the fine could mean coming back from thousands of miles away. That’s why I let the sheriff escort me to an atm and handed over $300 in cash on my way home from college. To be fair I was speeding, and in a red car. Very young and stupid I was. Now I’m old enough to warn my kids to at least drive a stealthy color

    • Naich@piefed.worldEnglish
      12·
      4 days ago

      It’s difficult to feel much sympathy when you were actually speeding. It’s literally illegal and dangerous and what the cameras are there to catch. Since I got older and stopped driving like a twat, I haven’t got any speeding tickets. I totally deserved the ones I got when I was younger because is was driving like a twat.