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

  • some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    I’m sure it depends entirely upon implementation and placement. The cities I’ve been in that used them had only a few, and everyone knew where they were. The driving behavior just outside of the camera’s reach was made worse than it would be without them.

    I wonder how the 20% compares to having LEOs that do actual traffic enforcement, where a human witnesses the violation and physically writes the ticket.

    I’m actually glad they’re illegal where I’m at currently. It seems to have a chilling effect on the local surveillance state in general, plus we get to interact with our accuser and, if necessary, appeal much more easily than in places which contract out for autonomous enforcement.