Several San Diego neighborhoods are pressing the city to introduce traffic calming measures to induce drivers to slow down.

After all the city has a zero pedestrian death goal by 2025!!!!

Over the recent years San Diego city has been listening to various concerned neighborhood groups about unsafe driving, although not always acting quickly. Bureaucracies are slow and projects are expensive.

But why not start meaningful traffic calming measures sooner? There are some that could be instituted quickly with low cost: turn several stop lighted intersections into red light blinking four way stops. Or change the timing of the stop lights so that they don’t encourage drivers to speed to catch the next green light.

The good news is that the city has been slowly but surely reducing several 3 lane roads to 2 lane roads, creating roundabouts, creating a pedestrian zone in a major tourist area downtown, and set up pedestrian crossing lights on a few busy streets.

In conclusion, I acknowledge we are a suburb nation that needs cars. But we are interested again in our urban city cores. The former has conditioned us to drive a lot, and quickly. The latter encourages walking, public transit and less car use over all.