"installing protected bike lanes on 9th street NW reduced all roadway crashes by 43%, while increasing bicycle use a stunning 365%. Average peak hour travel time, meanwhile, actually went down by 30 seconds after the lanes were installed"

Performance bedamned, they want more lanes

Behavior data is phone taps per mile

Bu no data on first or second offenses, fines in work zones, or the adjudication of various fines that can be up to $500, 4 points on license, and 90 days license suspension for 3+ offenses

Data on enforcement/adjudication is needed to judge policy impact

"In 2023, Governor DeWine signed a bill prohibiting all drivers, in most circumstances, from using or holding a cell phone or electronic device while driving on Ohio roads"

Big disconnect between behavior data and the enforcement that is supposed to influence it, no data on enforcement in article

Maybe you follow me because I write about transportation reform advocacy and you just don't see these connections. Maybe you need to hear that Alex Pretti was a cyclist in order to feel called to resist this. At this point, whatever; *just do whatever you can to resist this.*

Cameras cut speeding by an astonishing 72%. This means ~20,000 fewer vehicles are speeding at these locations every single day.

There's probably something to that

NHTSA says "Traffic crashes cost taxpayers $30 billion in 2019, roughly 9% of all motor vehicle crash costs. This is the equivalent of $230 in added taxes for every household in the United States." www.nhtsa.gov/press-releas...

I think most of that is medicaid

Bike registration usually is not an effective policy, e.g.: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This NH bill is also just an outsized financial burden

Only 2 states assess fees for all bikes. Hawaii has a ONE-TIME $15 registration. Oregon has a ONE-TIME $15 tax.

NH proposes $50 EVERY YEAR

Good thought, I don't know the economics of taxi pricing.

If it's like bikeshare then there's an initial charge and then a minute rate. Maybe slower trips = fewer initial charges and they make more money from higher turnover of trips?

The cost of crashes deserves far more attention than it gets.

Congestion gets multiple yearly reports, while NHTSA releases a cost of crashes estimate once or twice a decade, the last estimate for the cost of crashes to American society was $340 billion in 2019 www.nhtsa.gov/press-releas...

"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." - Stephen Jay Gould

We're trading seconds, maybe minutes, for the permanent loss human potential in crashes

It feels like you have to ignore all evidence of improved traffic safety to claim that lower speed limits are "declaring war on cars out of ideology" as the national Transport Minister Matteo Salvini claims

Or, maybe the ideology is that people shouldn't have to die so you can go slightly faster