Traffic calming could prevent another pedestrian death | ThinkBicycling

Headlines are quick hits from media outlets from Missouri and around the world. Follow the headline link for the full story. The source of this headline says:

The deaths of pedestrians on South Broadway, St. Louis City, due to speeding motorists, most recently that of Mr. Ashish “Bapi” Gupta on June 28, have led to calls for an increase in pedestrian safety on this road. The campaign in support includes a website, “Bapi Safe Streets,” as reported in the July 13th St. Louis Post-Dispatch. . . .

There are actually numerous traffic calming devices available in the transportation engineers toolbox. They include:

- lane narrowing by simple pavement markings
- chokers, including median islands, to physically narrow the lanes
- raised crosswalks
- traffic circles
- chicanes forcing horizontal vehicle deflections
- speed humps, causing vertical vehicle deflections

They have different operating characteristics, and some are more successful than others. The speed hump, and its more recent derivative, the speed cushion, offer a preferred solution, yet they are the least used locally.

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Traffic calming could prevent another pedestrian death | ThinkBicycling

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