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So you imply the best way to improve safety is to turn every road into autobahn, disallowing access to everyone except cars? This is incredibly wanton view.

Nope. The drivers' job is to look out and calmly accomodate the driving to all obstacles. Whoever is upset by mere speed differential, is not fit to be a driver.

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I was not implying that, merely noting that there are other ways to improve safety rather than just slowing down.

Check out this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_curve

The Solomon curve describes the relationship between how likely one is to be involved in a vehicular accident based on their speed compared to the average speed of the road.

The author doesn't seem to take this into account. It appears she is attempting to drive slower to protect those using roadways in other means such as biking, which would benefit from added infrastructure such as bicycle paths.

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