Originally Posted by
Roody
If engineers did their jobs properly, there would be no need for bike advocates to weigh in. But it seems that the only goal of some traffic engineers is to cram as many cars as posible through intersections, with no regard for the right of cyclists and pedestrians to travel safely.
Designing a road that kills people traveling on it should be just as unethical as designing a bridge that crashes the first time the wind blows.
The problem with this analogy is that engineers often have their hands tied by accountants (via program managers) that tell them to limit their design criteria. Otherwise roads would all have wide shoulders, bridges would never fail, and buildings would stand forever... but we wouldn't be able to afford any of it.