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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand how road diets cause accidents. I can see how they would cause slow downs and make people late, but sitting in traffic doesn't cause accidents.

If the reason for the back up was accidents, that's the fault of unsafe driving, not road diets. The fact that there were multiple accidents yesterday afternoon actually cuts against the idea that road diets are to blame, and could be seen as evidence that *more* road diets are necessary, to dissuade the unsafe drivers who cause accidents via speeding and refusing to obey traffic laws from driving at all.

So which is it? Was the congestion caused by unsafe drivers getting into accidents, or was it the intention creation of road diets?[/quote]

Let me guess, you are one of the BPAC crazies. Just like many things in life, what in theory should happen doesn’t become reality. In theory, if you make people so agitated with driving my purposefully causing gridlock, people will abandon their cars in the form of other kinds of transportation or other routes. BUT that hasn’t happened. People can be married to their cars. People blindly follow directional apps, always looking for that short cut to save maybe 10 seconds. In theory if one lane is removed and replaced with a bike lane it will cause drivers to slow down and when they slow down they drive more carefully.

I wish these things actually had happened. I don’t mind being proved wrong, esp about traffic. But just like upzoning didn’t solve the housing crisis, these traffic diets didn’t solve congestion. It is all political. And no one wants to pivot and problem solve. It’s not working. [/quote]

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