• Rolling Resistance@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    Traffic engineers use decades-old manuals that ignore safety in favour of driver convenience. This has to change. Streets built by them are a huge public safety issue.

    We should never accept crashes that result in serious injuries or deaths as if they are an inevitable force of nature or something. They’re merely a predictable outcome of a badly built system.

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      21 days ago

      Traffic engineers

      They are just doing what they are being told. They don’t have the authority to diviate in practice.

      This is a political issue. Everything is captured by the shittiest lobby.

      Health care > health insurance and pharma

      Infra > cars and oil

      Privacy > tech firms

      There is nothing a slave can do via direct action in these jobs since they will fire you and out somebody in place who will follow orders.

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      21 days ago

      You need three prongs, infrastructure, training and enforcement. No one wants to spend the large amount of $ it would take to redesign thousands of miles of roads in each city. There is also the issue of how ridiculously low the bar is set for getting a license and how basic safety inspections are. In my state I can count on one hand how many times I’ve seen highway patrols enforcing traffic laws.

      • Taldan@lemmy.world
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        20 days ago

        Are you usually this dishonest, or do you have a particular bias against bikes? I dislike liars, and you are a liar. The law you cited explicitly contradicts your strawman

        Here is an excerpt of the law you did not read:

        If a stop is not required for safety, the pedestrian or person operating a low-speed conveyance shall slow to a reasonable speed and yield the right-of-way to any traffic or pedestrian in or approaching the intersection. After the pedestrian or person operating a low-speed conveyance has slowed to a reasonable speed and yielded the right-of-way if required, the pedestrian or person operating a low-speed conveyance may cautiously make a turn or proceed through the intersection without stopping.

        Here is the law: https://colorado.public.law/statutes/crs_42-4-1412.5