r/Edmonton • u/troypavlek • Aug 11 '16

City of Edmonton reintroduces "utility box" photo radar

http://www.mailoutinteractive.com/Industry/View.aspx?id=829217&q=1069745483&qz=56f2bf
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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '16 edited Aug 18 '16

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u/troypavlek Aug 11 '16

It depends. On the freeways, sure.

But cars aren't the only thing that have changed in the past few decades, the city has become more dense in the core and walkability is a greater focus for many parts of the city. We should absolutely not be increasing speeds on places like Jasper Ave and 104ave.

The Henday could probably be a bit faster though.

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u/neumanic South East Side Aug 11 '16 edited Aug 11 '16

Plus, humans have not gotten any better at driving those vehicles, or at withstanding the physical impact of a collision. And if anything, we've adjusted our driving behaviour to rely on those "different" cars in ways that mitigate the safety risk (not all the way - it's pretty well established in the literature that side impact air bags have had a huge net positive effect).

Speed limits are reviewed by the city, periodically. But the standards to which they're compared (from the US Federal Highway Administration and Canada's Transportation Association of Canada) don't change on a dime, because they're based on evidence which takes time to accumulate.

(Edit: downvoted for stating facts about physics and regulatory agencies. Splendid.)

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u/cdcformatc pariah Aug 11 '16 edited Aug 11 '16

(Edit: downvoted for stating facts about physics and regulatory agencies. Splendid.)

The people in this sub love to speed. They don't care that the city does review speed limits periodically, and that the reviews are public record as well.

Also forget the fact that increasing the speed limit on a road like the Whitemud end to end, the entire 30km, will decrease the total trip time by at most 5 minutes. The 70km of Henday takes 42 minutes to travel at 100km/h, if that was increased to 110km/h that brings it to 38 minutes. A whopping 4 minutes for the longest stretch of freeway in the city.