[SDCBC] What where they thinking?

[John Eldon]

We can also fight for reduced speed limits. Traffic design experts such as Dan Burden can demonstrate that increasing a street's speed limit much above 35mph does NOT enhance its carrying capacity. As the population ages, more people will need to give up their driving privilege because of the infirmities of age, but these folks would be a natural market for neighborhood electric vehicles, if only the road system were fully interconnected with 35mph and slower roads. This would be a major change in the way much of San Diego County has been designing its road system, but it would save lives, save fuel, improve circulation, and ensure freedom of mobility for all road users. We need to start with a repeal of the 85th percentile speed trap law.

Don't believe it can be done? Watch the citizens of Encinitas pull it off on north Coast Highway 101 through Leucadia, which I confidently predict will be posted at 25 or 30 mph within the next few years, down from its current 40 to 45 mph.

"Big50_1 at yahoo.com" <big50_1 at yahoo.com> wrote: I've been following this thread and several items came to mind: (a) biking for exercise, (b) biking for transportation (safe) and (c) biking for transportation (not-so-safe). ... Then there is (C), biking for transportation (not-so-safe): this  any place where the car-bike speed differential is high.  Kinda' every place else.  You can spin it any way you want but the fact is that unless there is a physical barrier between high-speed cars and low-speed bikes, there is potentially extreme danger to the bike rider.  

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