Comment 78336

By Ryan (registered) - website
Posted June 11, 2012 at 21:42:34 in reply to Comment 78321

Good Luck in trying to move away from a car accident involving a driver having a heart attack at the wheel and having a violent accident.

The issue is not that the driver had a heart attack, it's that he was going so fast when it happened - "flying through the intersection at top speed and slamming into a parked car next to our house so hard that it rode up the back and ended up almost vertical."

The kinetic energy of a car is related to the square of its velocity. That means a car going twice as fast has four times the energy - and four times the stopping distance. That's why a pedestrian has a 5% likelihood of dying if hit by a car going 32 km/h, but 85% likelihood of dying if hit by a car going 64 km/h.

As traffic speeds increase, the margin of error gets geometrically smaller and the consequences of error get geometrically bigger.

Want to make our core pertinent again knock it down and rebuild it in a modern relevant way.

We've been doing that for 40 years - since the 1960s and '70s when you claim downtown was doing great but city leaders were knocking big chunks of it down to try and "Renew" it.

Today, those parts of the downtown that we left alone and didn't knock down are the most economically viable.

Comment edited by administrator Ryan on 2012-06-12 06:09:54

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