Gov. Greg Abbott directed the Texas Department of Transportation on Wednesday to ensure all cities and counties "remove any and all political ideologies from our streets."
I think something people might be missing here with painting the crosswalk is that paint can make the crosswalk much more visible. Streets murals, and crosswalk paint can cause drivers to slow down. Going further paint can be used to create an optical narrowing effect which causes drivers to subconsciously be more cautious and thus slow down. Slower speeds makes streets safer which directly saves lives. It’s not just political, it’s proven -
Look up daylighting and optical narrowing.
In general agree, the small counterpoint is that it makes the surface slicker – so long stretches is bad. Within the crosswalk should be fine, I just wouldn’t make a 40ft painted stretch in front of the crossing, you know? Sudden change in grip is bad.
(This is anecdotal, I assume it’s feasible to make a sufficiently grippy paint, it’s just something I notice when driving)
“Texas governor” “rainbow walk way” it’s a fucking stretch to even begin to consider this mandate came from a safety concern and not a culture war concern. It’s a further stretch to then hypothesize on the consistency and texture of the dried paint. Trying to validate this as a realistic safety concern in a state that regularly cooks/freezes residents to death is comical and horrible.
I think something people might be missing here with painting the crosswalk is that paint can make the crosswalk much more visible. Streets murals, and crosswalk paint can cause drivers to slow down. Going further paint can be used to create an optical narrowing effect which causes drivers to subconsciously be more cautious and thus slow down. Slower speeds makes streets safer which directly saves lives. It’s not just political, it’s proven - Look up daylighting and optical narrowing.
In general agree, the small counterpoint is that it makes the surface slicker – so long stretches is bad. Within the crosswalk should be fine, I just wouldn’t make a 40ft painted stretch in front of the crossing, you know? Sudden change in grip is bad.
(This is anecdotal, I assume it’s feasible to make a sufficiently grippy paint, it’s just something I notice when driving)
Pretty long reach there guy don’t fall over!!
Long reach to what? What exactly are you arguing?
You apparently caught my vibe in your edit, they make all kinds of paint.
Your vibe is “reads really far into things without actually explaining what they think is going on”
Does my post not acknowledge, in the plainly written text, that there’s likely other varieties that are appropriate?
So I ask again, what argument are you trying to make, emphasis on the trying?
“Texas governor” “rainbow walk way” it’s a fucking stretch to even begin to consider this mandate came from a safety concern and not a culture war concern. It’s a further stretch to then hypothesize on the consistency and texture of the dried paint. Trying to validate this as a realistic safety concern in a state that regularly cooks/freezes residents to death is comical and horrible.
It makes the road surface slicker, as I said.
Nowhere did I support Texas
Nowhere did I say the way that crosswalks are is bad
I said maybe having a slicker than usual stretch of road leading up to a crosswalk would be bad, which isn’t what’s happening
What’s more, you literally have a response next to mine on this subthread where you are clearly in agreement with me.
https://vger.to/lemmy.myserv.one/comment/16401772