Q: The 2022 demise toll on San Jose’s streets is ticking up and it is only April. If the city is really serious about Eyesight Zero, praying to the god of “personal responsibility” by contacting on folks to push additional meticulously is not likely to slice it. Law enforcement simply cannot be on every street corner 24/7.
Eamonn Gormley, SanJose
A: Eyesight Zero is the intention several California areas have to lower roadway fatalities to zero. It is admirable. It will be tricky to achieve. Businesses are utilizing new strategies to make roads safer for drivers, bicyclists and pedestrians.
Q: For every report of a fatality, I glance at the Google street watch of the site. It’s just about normally an oversized, multi-lane road which is hostile to pedestrians and invitations drivers to truly feel harmless driving at superior speeds. The only way we are heading to continue to keep ourselves and our youngsters secure is by redesigning streets to forcibly sluggish the cars and trucks. Building them as substantial pace highways is a loss of life sentence for the persons who are living here. Just one person’s “freedom” to travel at higher pace condemns an overall neighborhood’s young children to live beneath home-arrest, exactly where even stepping out on to the sidewalk is a daring act.
The tyranny of the car has long gone on for long adequate. It’s time to restore people’s independence to walk and cycle in security.
Eamonn Gormley
A: Which is why we’re observing highway weight loss plans, prolonged curbs at intersections, quite possibly reduced velocity restrictions, and other variations to make the roadways safer.
Q: A reader requested what could be carried out at the northbound Highway 85 exit at Fremont Avenue where by cars usually back up over and above the exit ramp, leading to coronary heart-halting slowdowns.
Your response need to have been, “There is a great deal of space. Vehicles need to pull up to in 3 feet of the car or truck in front of them, instead than leaving 20+ feet of unnecessary room.”
What’s worse, a car or truck rear-ending yet another car at 65 mph on the freeway or a vehicle rear-ending yet another car at 20 mph on the ramp? Leaving so substantially place serves no goal (except on pretty steep roads).
Gerald Sylvester
A: I get this criticism routinely. In addition, if you go away 20+ toes between you and the motor vehicle forward, it makes it possible for other automobiles to duck into the lane in front of you, including threat and confusion.
Q: Can I continue to use the carpool lane as a solo driver with my carpool sticker on Highway 101 south after 237, where the new HOV lane finishes? I don’t have my FasTrak however.
Jill Cohen
A : Certainly. You need to have a FasTrak flex tag to use express lanes, but you can use other carpool lanes with your stickers.
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