Road design is part of it but improving road design only improves ‘reasonable’ drivers, and things like chicanes, lane narrowing, and speed bumps cause issues for larger commercial vehicles like buses.
Persistent asshole drivers will still drive drunk or drive dementia, run red lights, or go three times the speed a road is built for.
“the systems and environments we place people in” is not just the road. It’s the licensing regime, the society that makes having a car necessary even if you can’t drive safely or afford to maintain it, and that doesn’t mandate effective ongoing training.
Urban planning should account for routing large commercial vehicles while maintaining safe streets. This runs into a particular beef I have: driveways should never open onto arterial roads.
Other countries have FAR harder driving tests and FAR stiffer penalties for breaking the rules. In the US, we treat driving like a human right, so people have no respect for anything or anyone around them when inside their car.
Road design is part of it but improving road design only improves ‘reasonable’ drivers, and things like chicanes, lane narrowing, and speed bumps cause issues for larger commercial vehicles like buses.
Persistent asshole drivers will still drive drunk or drive dementia, run red lights, or go three times the speed a road is built for.
“the systems and environments we place people in” is not just the road. It’s the licensing regime, the society that makes having a car necessary even if you can’t drive safely or afford to maintain it, and that doesn’t mandate effective ongoing training.
Urban planning should account for routing large commercial vehicles while maintaining safe streets. This runs into a particular beef I have: driveways should never open onto arterial roads.
Other countries have FAR harder driving tests and FAR stiffer penalties for breaking the rules. In the US, we treat driving like a human right, so people have no respect for anything or anyone around them when inside their car.