Helping communities campaign for safe speeds on Canada's residential & urban streets. A @VisionZeroCA / @20sPlentyForUs partnership.
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Love 30 Canada retweeted
☠️ 3 lanes of traffic in each direction, going through various urban areas;
☠️ Speed limit is 45-55 mph, but cars are often going much faster;
☠️ Crosswalks are few & far between ...
👀 READ @marincogan on the Deadliest Road (#stroad) in America :
vox.com/23178764/florida-us1… – at Los Angeles, CA
KUDOS @CityofTacoma for lowering speed limits to 20 mph on residential streets, and 25 mph on arterial streets, in four of the city’s Neighborhood Business Districts.
planetizen.com/news/2022/08/… #Tacoma #visionzero #speedlimit #speedkills
Love 30 Canada retweeted
"The goal of the #BanCars movement is not to render cars obsolete. It’s to give ppl the choice to live a life where car ownership, & dependence are unnecessary — regardless of socioeconomic status or physical ability to operate an automobile." 😎 MUST-READ jalopnik.com/what-i-mean-whe…
Love 30 Canada retweeted
Most people everywhere want to live on slower streets so that they can enjoy them. Give the streets back to people.
Most people in British Columbia want to live on slower streets.
What are we waiting for?
Our latest release: In 2019, public support for a lower speed limit on British Columbia’s residential streets stood at 58%. The proportion climbed to 61% in 2021 and has increased again this year to 66%. researchco.ca/2022/06/10/spe…
Love 30 Canada retweeted
I am happy to announce we are the first community in Ottawa where all residential streets are at 30km/hr speed limits
This is the way to do 30k.
Re-set the limits in a wide swath, focussing on residential streets.
Then you can install speed bumps & other calming measures to align with that ppl-friendly limit.
Congrats to @MathieuFleury, & to all who made this happen.
xitter.cf/MathieuFleury/status/1…
A fabulous 😊 community map showing, with this morning's committee approval (in blue), that #Lowertown, #SandyHill and #Vanier communities residentials streets are 30km/h speed limits.
A first in #Ottawa 👋
Love 30 Canada retweeted
"Put bluntly, speed kills. A safe system approach puts contextual speed management at the core of every street design project ..."
📖 @zvanderkooy @mobycon : ow.ly/3cCP50Iv4aY
Love 30 Canada retweeted
😎If #Winnipeg city council approves, the Enhanced Summer Bike Route Program will reopen 14 of the 17 routes tested last year, with speed limits reduced to 30 km/h from 50 km/h, from May 1 to Oct. 31.
Story by @joyanne_pursaga (HT @emmaewood)
winnipegfreepress.com/local/… @Love30ca
Love 30 Canada retweeted
Wise strategy advice from
Chuck Marohn @StrongTowns, who learned how NOT to think like an engineer.
#streetsareforpeople #completestreets #peoplefriendly #urbanism #walkable #bikefriendly #walkabillty #thinkoutsidethecar
A "complete street" approach accommodates people who walk in an auto-dominated environment. A Strong Towns approach accommodates cars in an environment designed for people. bit.ly/3wimdA1
Love 30 Canada retweeted
City of Toronto issued more than 54,000 Automated Speed Enforcement #ASE tickets in last 3 months of 2021. 🚗💨
toronto.ca/news/city-of-toro… #safetycameras #visionzero #visionzeroTO ##TOdeadlystreets #Caronto
Love 30 Canada retweeted
A new 30-year transportation plan, focusing heavily on transit projects & active transportation linkages, is approved for the Vancouver region.
Story via @CasualBrasuell @planetizen >> planetizen.com/news/2022/02/… #visionzero #vancouver #bc
Love 30 Canada retweeted
👆Well said (as usual) Tom.
People are often mystified when they meet safety campaigners who don't promote protective & reflective gear for people walking & cycling.
We have our reasons ...👇
xitter.cf/VisionZeroCA/status/10… #pedestrianblame #bikehelmets
If #cycling #helmets mitigate injury then we should promote them & even mandate them, right?
Wrong, sez Dr. @HarryRutter. Cycling is benign, helmet protection is meagre, & we need to focus on eliminating the cause.
(@peterwalker99, How Cycling can Save the World, p. 163.)
Congrats to @Banff_Town Council for dropping #speedlimit to 30 km/h ❤️❤️❤️ on ALL streets.
'Slower is safer,' sez @banffmayor Corrie DiManno. 😎
cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/t…
Love 30 Canada retweeted
The solution to the problems wrought by automobiles isn't better cars. Nor is it more costly, confining automobile infrastructure.
It's safe, space-efficient, low-emission alternatives like walking, cycling & public transit.
xitter.cf/adamtranter/status/147… #peakMusk #thinkoutsidethecar
"Map of the City of Los Angeles Showing 15 & 20 Mile [per hour] Speed Limits Within City Boundaries" (1922).
raremaps.com/gallery/detail/… #speedlimits #history #urbanism #roadsafety #losangeles #dialitback
Love 30 Canada retweeted
From now on, speed limit in #Bordeaux drops from 50 km/h to 30 (30 to 20 mph). Joins #Montpellier #Grenoble, #Nice, #Lille, #Nantes, 200 other cities in #France with 30 km/h limits.
This has already led to an astonishing 70% decrease in crash fatalities.
20minutes.fr/bordeaux/320899…
Love 30 Canada retweeted
☝️“We would like to remind all Edmontonians that speed is a factor in every crash. Slowing down gives us more time to react to the unexpected, reduces unnecessary tragedies on our roads & has very little impact on travel times.”
— @CityofEdmonton safe mobility Rajna Tufegdzic.✊
Love 30 Canada retweeted
"We need to design our streets and roads to be safe not for the predictable abstractions of our best-laid plans, but for the complex, unpredictable, flesh-and-blood people who actually use them. We need to #SlowTheCars."
John Pattison @StrongTowns
strongtowns.org/journal/2021…