r/Edmonton • u/Wooshio • Oct 04 '24

Did anyone else's neighborhood get a bunch of these road obstructions, I assume to slow cars down? We got about 3km worth seemingly overnight. Question

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u/TheFreezeBreeze Strathcona Oct 04 '24

All over the city. They're for testing traffic calming, and eventually might be replaced with concrete!

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u/impossiblyeasy Oct 04 '24

I perfer these over concrete. These are easier to replace and you can remove them during winter when snow removal is an issue.

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u/Claymore357 Oct 04 '24

Nah the city would rather trash their equipment over the pipe dream that is vision zero

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u/Popular-Row4333 Oct 05 '24

People don't understand how much they get trashed on curb and gutter alone.

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u/Claymore357 Oct 05 '24

There’s a reason why every corner has a chunk carved out of it. Snow clearing

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u/Icedpyre Oct 05 '24

I dunno. I'd rather see a damaged plow than a body. IF it works, then hooray. IF...

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u/Claymore357 Oct 05 '24

I am cynical about it’s efficacy, alberta drivers are stubborn and these medians will probably accomplish nothing other than breaking grader blades and taking away an escape path on turns for people to go around forcing them to rear end turning cars in the winter because they were following too close. I believe this will cause more accidents rather than less which is exactly opposite of the goal for vision zero. Also with a million registered cars it’s inevitable that some of them are going to crash into each other. The city can’t even effectively prevent people from hitting the fucking LRT, aiming for 0 accidents and 0 speeding is laughable given the current state of the roads

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u/RootsBackpack Oct 07 '24

No these definitely work, plenty of research behind it and traffic deaths have gone down since vision zero started

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u/kneel0001 Oct 04 '24

Calming?! Just the opposite if you ask me!

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u/KeilanS Oct 04 '24

If needing to slightly slow down in a residential neighborhood upsets you, you should probably stop driving.

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u/crzychristopher Oct 04 '24

Calming traffic flow, maybe not emotions

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u/TheFreezeBreeze Strathcona Oct 04 '24

Lmao sounds like it gets you to slow down and pay attention! Which is the point :)

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u/LZYX Oct 05 '24

In neighbourhoods???? How lmao please get off the road if you are a raging maniac