Traffic engineers and policymakers are increasingly taking pedestrian needs into account when they set speed limits. By slowing vehicles down, they are improving safety for everyone.
America isn’t laid out in such a way that you can cut traffic off from almost any street. Some downtown areas where parking is available all around the edges maybe, but that is a pretty rare case, and in those cases there are sidewalks already.
Yeah those people who want to travel a few mile’s from their home be damned!
Oh no! You’ll arrive 5 minutes later while reducing pedestrian fatalties! How will Murica survive?
America isn’t laid out in such a way that you can cut traffic off from almost any street. Some downtown areas where parking is available all around the edges maybe, but that is a pretty rare case, and in those cases there are sidewalks already.