KD5NRH

Voice dial and talk, or wait until I'm stopped or out of town.

Rollfast

I dare you to get out of your car and find a phone to report the 12-car pileup, 2 exits from a gas station, Phoebeisis. Ain't happening.

Cellphones are the best highway management tool since aerial traffic surveillance.

rekmeyata

I think in some areas the speed limit is too high, like in dense residential areas it's 30 mph, this should be 25 because most people will travel 10 over; I also think school zones should be 15 mph not the current 25 (some areas I think do 20), 15 is not a big deal, it's not like you have to drive a couple of miles at that speed!

KD5NRH

I've never had a traffic conflict with a student in a school zone. Those exist only to protect the parents that have decided they have ROW over all the other traffic, regardless of what idiotic move they're trying to pull.

Of course, not putting schools so close to (or directly on, in some cases) major through highways would help a lot too. Having traffic go from 60-75mph down to 25 and back is asking for trouble.

Rollfast

School zones exist because children don't always tend to behave in manners adults think they will and because we love them. We put them in areas near the school where kids are likely to cross the street the most on their way home.

Dead children are not any more fun than dead cyclists.

rekmeyata

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You may not have had any trouble but the bad news is, you're not the only driver driving a car on the roads passing schools in America. Just in Fort Wayne alone this year there has been 8 to 10 kids hit that I know of, while none died all suffered some sort of injury from mild to major. And the reason for the kids getting hit was all the kids fault for not looking both ways BUT as far as I know some of the cars were exceeding the 25 mph school limit and others were found not speeding which means they were probably doing 25 which is too fast in my opinion. The law needs to change those limits to 15 which would be enough to prevent major injuries. College campus don't need to be that low, 25 would be fine, if you're an adult student and still can't figure out how to cross the street without getting hit by a car then it's just a matter of time anyways before your hit by a car student or not!!

KD5NRH

At the local campus, they closed several streets because they were just too dangerous to cross. It wasn't students getting hit, either; it was the professors who couldn't be taught to look both ways. Of course, two years later it's finally starting to sink in that all that traffic was there for a reason, wouldn't go away just because it was detoured, and now it's just making more of a mess of the streets that haven't been closed.

mr_bill

"This Vision Zero Action Plan is the City's foundation for ending traffic deaths and injuries on our streets." Especially through "...expanded enforcement against dangerous moving violations like speeding and failing to yield to pedestrians." Yup, pedestrians are vulnerable. But a little known fact - seems you only got to yield to the tall pedestrians.

-mr. bill

B. Carfree

Where's that South Dakota legislator when you need him? We just need to require that pedestrians carry fifteen-foot tall flags and we can put an end to the unnecessary deaths of short pedestrians.