Q: What occurred to the Mr. Roadshow who's in favor of street diets and different measures to make roads safer for non-automobile visitors? A few feedback from readers blame non-autos for risks when a correctly designed street system would enable all customers — automobile drivers, bicyclists, pedestrians and others — to make use of roads safely.
Inching by means of an intersection is a small value to pay to keep away from car-bicycle and car-pedestrian crashes. That’s what you’ve been telling us for years.
Gary Brainin, San Jose
A: Sure, I've. I'll proceed to. We have to acknowledge the rights — and tasks — of all who use our roads, it doesn't matter what type of transportation they use.
Adjustments that assist make roads safer embody narrowing some streets, including velocity cameras in areas with excessive accident charges, bettering bicycle lanes, and extra. These utilizing the street can decelerate, and pay full consideration to their drive, journey, stroll and the actions of others round them.
Q: A former shopper used a crosswalk at a light-weight on inexperienced, with visitors move. A driver made a rapid left flip, attempting to beat oncoming visitors that also had a inexperienced mild.
The driving force hit my shopper within the crosswalk and despatched him flying. He suffered important accidents, together with PTSD. So far as I do know, he has by no means used a crosswalk once more.
My vote is for legalizing protected jaywalking.
Mike-The-Lawyer, San Jose
A: There’s additionally this attitude…
Q: If jaywalking is legalized, it's like giving individuals licenses to stroll at will with out wanting when crossing a avenue. It’s even worse at night time. Strolling with a headset, texting or talking on a cellphone is already an enormous distraction. This places further burden on drivers. We must always not legalize jaywalking.
Simon Chng, Fremont
A: We’ll know later this month if the proposed laws will get by means of Sacramento.
Q: In Germany, speed-checking cameras routinely problem rushing tickets! We wouldn’t want a fuel tax for roads if speeders had been truly fined. The largest lie in visitors enforcement today is “Pace checked by radar.”
Richard Friedman
A: Germans know the best way to take care of speeders.
Q: All of the noise about excessive gas costs rings hole. I drove from San Francisco to San Clemente and again by way of Interstate 280, Freeway 101 and Interstate 405 with cruise management set at 75 mph. I used to be handed by a lot of fuel-inefficient autos, together with huge rigs, going 10 to twenty mph over my velocity. I don’t know if the time saved is positively offset by the gas prices however someway I doubt it.
George Badger, Soquel
A: Rushing 10 mph is like including about 30 cents to the price of every gallon of fuel.
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