Several city councillors say it’s important for the Toronto Police Service (TPS) to ‘get to the bottom of’ how many automated speeding or red light camera tickets its officers get – and how many have no lawful excuse.
Several city councillors say it’s important for the Toronto Police Service (TPS) to ‘get to the bottom of’ how many automated speeding or red light camera tickets its officers get – and how many have no lawful excuse.
If instead of signs we limited the comfortable speed of our roads by narrowing them and placing more physical obstructions like chicanes and trees very close to the roadside it would naturally slow people down.
If you drive on a narrow road with a lot of roadside objects you naturally slow down as the risk feels higher and the sense of speed is increased.
If we keep building roads that look like airport runways and drag strips, we can expect this issue to persist.
The best way to get drivers to slow down is make them worry about their paint
They had chicanes in my neighbourhood for a couple of decades. They aren’t good in an area that gets snow as the plow will fuck them up, as well as drivers not knowing how to use them and create traffic jams by being idiots. The replaced them with more of the wide speed bumps. They seem to have a better effect at calming the speeds while not causing unnecessary traffic blockages.