
How Traffic Engineering Made America’s Streets Deadly
The Strong Towns Podcast
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Rethinking Speed Limits and Road Design
This chapter critiques the reliance on the 85th percentile speed for setting speed limits, advocating instead for road designs that discourage high-speed driving. It also examines the limited effectiveness of lowering speed limits and proposes self-enforcing streets as a more sustainable solution for enhancing safety.
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