• barsoap@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    It is, however, the street with the most speeding tickets in town.

    Is it still built like a 50km/h street? If yes then there you have your answer.

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      11 months ago

      What’s your argument?

      Streets in Europe are (with few exceptions) narrower than in the US. Is there a natural consequence for speed limits? Does it take some kind of special mental capacity to follow legal speed limits in streets that perceivably could be traversed faster?

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        11 months ago

        Does it take some kind of special mental capacity to follow legal speed limits in streets that perceivably could be traversed faster?

        In fact yes it does you practically need to be a superhuman: Narrow streets feel unsafe and drivers automatically slow down. In the US speed limits, where they don’t build streets according to the intended speed but much wider, are set to lower than what the engineers want you to drive at because they expect speeding.

        US speed limits are also inconsistent, and the signs announcing them are practically invisible. Have a video.