• @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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    31 year ago

    i can understand not strictly calling paint traffic calming, but planters? what galaxy brain definition of traffic calming are they using where placing a box on the road isn’t traffic calming?

    • @n2burns@lemmy.ca
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      41 year ago

      My guess is the phrase “traffic calming” has negative connotations with the local general public due to poor implementation.

      I’ve driven down streets that are 50km/h and I think most people would gladly do ≤60km/h. If that’s too fast, there’s many ways to ‘softly’ calm the speed like narrowing the road, chicanes, paving stones, etc. Instead, they have speed bumps ever couple kms so drivers slow to a crawl for the bump, then accelerate hard to >70km/h, then brake hard to go over the next bump.