Emergency Service Vehicles can just be exceptions. Like how it is in the rest of the world. Banning cars off of streets and making them into pedestrian zones actually improves access for emergency service vehicles by a lot! Because, you know, there aren’t any cars in the way to block them anymore. A handful of bicycles and some pedestrians can clear an entire road a lot faster than like 4 cars.
The rest of the world thought of this and said, “You know, maybe we should aim to make our emergency service vehicles more specialized and as compact as possible so that they can fit in any street easily and have high maneuverability”. You know what the US did? Yup. They made EMS vehicles bigger and less specialized 🤦♂️…
There aren’t any excuses for car centric street design.
Well then use retractable bollards. We have them in my town (Netherlands), and they have a thing where they will open automatically for emergency services.
They are far more affordable. The road work alone required to install the bollards is more expensive than a basic camera set up and retractable bollards also need digital infrastructure and maintenance
Works great until an EMS vehicle needs to access the scene.
Emergency Service Vehicles can just be exceptions. Like how it is in the rest of the world. Banning cars off of streets and making them into pedestrian zones actually improves access for emergency service vehicles by a lot! Because, you know, there aren’t any cars in the way to block them anymore. A handful of bicycles and some pedestrians can clear an entire road a lot faster than like 4 cars.
The rest of the world thought of this and said, “You know, maybe we should aim to make our emergency service vehicles more specialized and as compact as possible so that they can fit in any street easily and have high maneuverability”. You know what the US did? Yup. They made EMS vehicles bigger and less specialized 🤦♂️…
There aren’t any excuses for car centric street design.
Placing bollards(unless they are pneumatic retractable bollards) affect ALL cars.
Oh yeah. I hadn’t seen them talking about bollards for some reason. That’s true.
Well then use retractable bollards. We have them in my town (Netherlands), and they have a thing where they will open automatically for emergency services.
Sure, they are totally as affordable to implement widely as concrete bollards…
Camera’s aren’t cheap either, especially if you consider the digital infrastructure and maintenance.
They are far more affordable. The road work alone required to install the bollards is more expensive than a basic camera set up and retractable bollards also need digital infrastructure and maintenance