Thirty is Dirty

Via Copenhagenize:

Here’s an illustration from the Swedish Road Directorate, showing what it’s like to have 30 mph speed limits in a city. And New York is bragging about 30 mph? Is it possible to be more out of touch with reality and statistics?

Mikael also writes:

Why isn’t Manhattan one big 20 mph zone? In two years, 80% of Barcelona will be covered by 20 mph zones. Over 80 cities in Europe have adopted them.

Sadly, as the radical pro-car lobby and its supporters like to remind us, this is not Europe.