Private Eye piece on effects of speeding traffic

[trsleigh]

I'm not sure that speeding on the whole is dangerous. If someone is on a quite none residential road and doing 35mph on a clear stretch this isn't so dangerous. It's people who insist on accelerating as hard as possible, braking late and hard, taking corners way to fast (often without indicating) who cause more of an issue even if they don't break the speed limit in doing so.

But, the whole point of the PE piece was....
"What Labour and Tory ministers have never understood is that speeding traffic is a problem because of intimidation, not just the occurrence of accidents. Over the past 40 years children’s independence of movement has reduced dramatically, with worrying health consequences, thanks largely to parental fear of traffic."

 

[StuartG]

An ongoing concern of mine is the conversion of roadspace into freebie garaging. This so often converts a pleasant wide street into a narrow tunnel through which cars thunder through with no idea what is happening on the pavement until some little fellow dashes out between these parked cars.

Not to mention one massive pinch point for cyclists who should be riding further from the cars then they would from the now hidden curb to avoid door zone catastrophes.

In these conditions 20 mph is more than tops for motorist and rider alike ...