Originally Posted by
JW Fas
Whenever an area is considered "dangerous to cyclists and pedestrians" the commonality is almost always motor vehicles. It isn't a practical long term solution to remove automobiles from the equation, but we need to focus more on making the infrastructure conducive to safer driving.
Those are called traffic-calming devices. Drivers hate them because they can't zombie-drive and are forced to pay attention to avoid danage to their vehicles. Even putting up a few trees and narrowing the street to limit visibility improves safety because they naturally slowdown traffic instead of artifically attempting to slow down traffic with speed limits and speed cameras.
Streets like where the boy got run over need separated bike lanes because you know the drivers who oppose to them always say the same thing: ' Bike lanes slow them down'.