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twelvechairs | 4 months ago

A huge part of poorly designed roads is wider lanes (and parking spaces) that allow/encourage huge cars. Its been proven that narrower lanes correlate strongly with lower crash and fatality rates (e.g. [0] below) yet lane widths are under pressure to increase with larger vehicles, and every time this happens the vehicles get larger again.

[0] https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2023/narrower-lanes-safer-stree...

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FridayoLeary|4 months ago

I heard the fire department wants wide lanes so they can drive around in those huge behemoths they love.

IAmBroom|4 months ago

People living in buildings that are currently aflame tend to be fans of those behemoths. Speaking from experience.

ajuc|4 months ago

Surely that's not THE determining factor behind American transportation system.

Because if it is - seems easy and cheap to fix.

ponector|4 months ago

But they can easily use more than one lane, why should they care about lane width?