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DefaultSubsAreTerrib t1_je4yjwy wrote

Raised crosswalk

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Dripp_e t1_je63awr wrote

There are some raised crosswalks on Grove near Carytown. They don't seem to slow cars much. But definitely better than these signs that just confuse people.

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BureauOfBureaucrats t1_je6lkyk wrote

I don’t believe people are genuinely confused. I think they maliciously and/or deliberately disobey them. I see people gunning for the gas and straddling the center of the road so they hit them.

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J-Colio t1_je4zasa wrote

Drainage and snow plow nightmare.

Also, orders of magnitude difference in cost.

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lame_gaming t1_je5cgso wrote

americans when people suggest bare minimum traffic calming: 😡

americans when the dot flattens half the city and spends billions making interstates (it saves them 4 minutes): 😁

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J-Colio t1_je6u77r wrote

Engineers who design roads professionally seeing lots of downvotes to a comment explaining why retrofitting this existing road isn't a good idea: 🙄😮‍💨

There's an inlet in the picture.

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ImpoliteArchitect t1_je756eo wrote

i always appreciate an engineer who not only dismissed ideas for better safety and use, but also fails to provide any kind of alternative. these are the folks who design Richmond, ey?

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J-Colio t1_je7ezg9 wrote

I don't know, maybe DUI checkpoints.

Cary isn't a hard road, yet drivers manage to fuck up. We do our best, but you can't design stupid out. MOST of Cary is as straight as an arrow. There's like what, two bends near the VCU area? How hard is it to just go slow? You could do things like Franklin where you narrow the travel lane and eliminate parking so the road 'feels' narrow which naturally slows drivers, but unless you want a constant 4 inches of water to drive through every time it rains, geometric changes to most of the road isn't going to be feasible - ESPECIALLY given current design standards.

If you look at how many inlets are out into new facilities it's crazy. Every manhole structure is like $6k a pop EASY.

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turnipmeatloaf t1_je9bkgx wrote

Never trust an American road engineer. They’re the ones that ruined our cities

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Utretch t1_je58u1t wrote

Somehow Europe manages that just fine

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BureauOfBureaucrats t1_je5arnq wrote

As do other cities in both the US and even elsewhere in Virginia. The city government here just always chooses the laziest/cheapest option for any given situation while making lazy/lame excuses as to why their way is the only way.

Every member of the city council and the mayor needs to be flushed out like the turds they are.

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