Q: The 2022 loss of life toll on San Jose’s streets is ticking up and it’s solely April. If town is severe about Imaginative and prescient Zero, praying to the god of “private duty” by calling on folks to drive extra fastidiously just isn't going to chop it. Legislation enforcement can't be on each road nook 24/7.
Eamonn Gormley, SanJose
A: Imaginative and prescient Zero is the purpose many California areas have to scale back roadway fatalities to zero. It's admirable. Will probably be troublesome to attain. Companies are using new methods to make roads safer for drivers, bicyclists and pedestrians.
Q: For each report of a fatality, I have a look at the Google road view of the situation. It’s nearly all the time an outsized, multi-lane street that’s hostile to pedestrians and invitations drivers to really feel secure driving at excessive speeds. The one means we're going to maintain ourselves and our youngsters secure is by redesigning streets to forcibly gradual the vehicles. Designing them as excessive pace highways is a loss of life sentence for the individuals who stay right here. One particular person’s “freedom” to drive at excessive pace condemns a whole neighborhood’s youngsters to stay beneath house-arrest, the place even stepping out onto the sidewalk is a daring act.
The tyranny of the car has gone on for lengthy sufficient. It’s time to revive folks’s freedom to stroll and cycle in security.
Eamonn Gormley
A: That’s why we’re seeing street diets, prolonged curbs at intersections, probably decrease pace limits, and different adjustments to make the roads safer.
Q: A reader requested what might be performed on the northbound Freeway 85 exit at Fremont Avenue the place vehicles usually again up past the exit ramp, inflicting heart-stopping slowdowns.
Your response ought to have been, “There's loads of room. Automobiles ought to pull as much as inside 3 ft of the automotive in entrance of them, quite than leaving 20+ ft of pointless house.”
What’s worse, a automotive rear-ending one other automotive at 65 mph on the freeway or a automotive rear-ending one other automotive at 20 mph on the ramp? Leaving a lot house serves no objective (besides on very steep roads).
Gerald Sylvester
A: I get this criticism steadily. As well as, when you go away 20+ ft between you and the automotive forward, it permits different vehicles to duck into the lane in entrance of you, including hazard and confusion.
Q: Can I nonetheless use the carpool lane as a solo driver with my carpool sticker on Freeway 101 south after 237, the place the brand new HOV lane ends? I don’t have my FasTrak but.
Jill Cohen
A : Sure. You want a FasTrak flex tag to make use of specific lanes, however you should use different carpool lanes together with your stickers.
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