There’s no excuse: when members of a community see a dangerous street for what it is, it shouldn’t take a death (or several deaths) for the city to finally take action.
If you wanna start throwing the term budget around then it is time to rethink the entire way we build roads and cities because the north american methods are incredibly expensive to build and maintain. The budget would be far less limited if we used it to build better.
Agreed. Building TOD communities is the gold standard. Lots of municipalities do have legacy infrastructure that doesn’t match modern design principles. In those circumstances no matter how big your budget is it will never be enough to rebuild all infrastructure.
Difficult choices have to be made. i.e. spend $450k to build a fully signaled crosswalk for a school that has no accident history, or spend a about twice that to add lights to a signed intersection with multiple fatal collisions. If you can only afford to do one, and not both… No matter what you do people will be unhappy.
Limited budgets, focus improvements on the area with demonstrated problems.
If you wanna start throwing the term budget around then it is time to rethink the entire way we build roads and cities because the north american methods are incredibly expensive to build and maintain. The budget would be far less limited if we used it to build better.
Agreed. Building TOD communities is the gold standard. Lots of municipalities do have legacy infrastructure that doesn’t match modern design principles. In those circumstances no matter how big your budget is it will never be enough to rebuild all infrastructure.
Difficult choices have to be made. i.e. spend $450k to build a fully signaled crosswalk for a school that has no accident history, or spend a about twice that to add lights to a signed intersection with multiple fatal collisions. If you can only afford to do one, and not both… No matter what you do people will be unhappy.
We’re not a poor nation.