If speed limits were reduced to like 25-30 mph and most stoplights were replaced with roundabouts then traffic would actually move faster because going 45mph past Walmart certainly feels faster but then you stop at a stoplight every hundred feet and your average speed turns out to be like 15-20 mph but people don’t think that roundabouts are faster because for some reason they only ever replace like one stoplight with a roundabout so people being released from another stoplight down the road like a pack of racehorses all charge into the roundabout all at once and make it confusing and scary to get into it when in fact if every intersection was a roundabout then there would be a steady low density stream of cars all the time instead of a sudden stampede of them and it would also make things safer for pedestrians and cyclists but who the fuck cares about the lives of pedestrians and cyclists I guess and anyways I hate American car infrastructure
You think people care about speed limits?
They will if you make the roads narrow enough so that they’re scared into going the correct speed limit.
Everything that makes life around cars in general safer and more pleasant has to do with the physical infrastructure you put things on and the laws that are enforced. If you want people to go slower you make narrower lanes and raised intersections. If you want traffic to flow freely you use roundabouts. If you want to reduce road congestion you improve transit and bike infrastructure and possibly implement a congestion tax. These are all solvable issues that can be implemented during routine road repair.
