![]() “Public and political pressure” are among the factors the report suggests are appropriate to consider, dryly adding, “Deeper engagement may be necessary for controversial improvements.” The report also covers ways for communities to perform cost-benefit analyses and fund such projects. ![]() Ditto for broader, community-level approaches to public transit improvement, mixed-mode urban design, and lower and better-enforced speed limits. The report’s recommendations of “countermeasures” are not novel, ranging from improved traffic lights and crosswalks to roundabouts, bike lanes and median barriers. That’s not a cause-and-effect proof, the report says, but it suggests something is unusually wrong in their design or use. Those roads are the sites of 12.5 percent of “severe” intersection crashes in the ARC region, according to the report, yet make up only 2.7 percent of the lane-miles of roads. One example in the report involves urban, four-lane, main roads owned by the Georgia Department of Transportation.
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