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Streets to being streets that are more in out of the way areas and we all agree movement of these thousands of vehicles a a day has to be done in a safe matter and how to achieve that and we dont want to do things to arterials that would encourage people to use other streets so if we effect arterial traffic. Speeding can also vary depending on the time of day so even talking about streets being congested during the day there may be times when they are relatively empty ier and thats a situation where you may have speeding at night on weekends or during the middle of the day. As megan and others...

To mention the example of geary boulevard which is a major 6 lane arterial in a commercial core area between masonic avenue a high Commercial Area one of the examples of a street that has a a lot of transit and pedestrian activity. And what weve done over time is to signalize all of the uncontrolled crossings so not only are there more controls to control the traffic speeds but the likely hood of pedestrians or motorists being hit decreases so as you can see there were a number of scene of scene of intersections that were not signalized. And weve been able to fix those issues and now in the pr...

The arterial map you will see a big overlap and thats a function of the fact its more likely for people to get into collisions on these major streets by the fact they are carrying so much traffic and have a lot of bicycle and pedestrian activity so theres a large overlap and over all injury maps and the Arterial Network in the city and unsafe speed id like to emphasize if you are speeding you are more likely to run a red light or be unable to yield to a pedestrian or lose control of your vehicle in a situation where somebody else is trying to turn and so forth so speeding is not just by itself...

Speeding i think is the critical factor in causing collisions and also in the severity of the collisions. So how do we approach arterial traffic calming . We basically want streets not to have the characteristics that will make speeding attract ive so that means primary Traffic Signals or other types of devices to make sure vehicles are controlled in that way and streets have an appropriate number of traffic lanes as narrow as possible and theres a lot of research that narrow traffic lanes can be one tool to help slow down traffic and design streets to be attract ive to all modes. This is a pi...

Critical factor in causing collisions and also in the severity of the collisions. So how do we approach arterial traffic calming . We basically want streets not to have the characteristics that will make speeding attract ive so that means primary Traffic Signals or other types of devices to make sure vehicles are controlled in that way and streets have an appropriate number of traffic lanes as narrow as possible and theres a lot of research that narrow traffic lanes can be one tool to help slow down traffic and design streets to be attract ive to all modes. This is a picture that was a 6 a 6 l...