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In the absence of a flair system on lemmy yet, let’s try to make it easier to scan through posts by type in here by using tags:
From this article about several cities lowering the speed limit of certain rods by 5mph.
This commenter always complains on any article about transportation.
@x00z @talzag Traffic engineers often consider themselves much more expert than they actually are on a lot of things and their traditional methods of setting speed limits are little more than astrology which all but ignore the needs of non-car road users, but if there’s one group less expert than traffic engineers on safe driving speed, it’s cops.