[V__]

The channel Not Just Bikes did a video on this, he had the same experience as you.[1]

Growing up in Germany myself, I also feel that this trend is getting noticable here.

I have no data on this, but I feel like safer cars lead to higher speeds and therefore perceived higher risk from a pedestrian/children point of view. The fact that there are more cars and they are bigger, while speed enforcement is basically non-existent (because freedom) are probably also doing their part.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=mV7kT0Oj2z6ic18L

[eru]

We have a similar problem in Singapore.

Unfortunately, there's on policy that I otherwise really like, congestion charging, that contributes to faster average car speeds.

[resolutebat]

Why, because people are rushing to beat the moment when charged go up during peak hour?

Personally, I find that Singapore's prevalence of pay-per-minute car shares (because buying a car is so expensive) coupled with the inexperienced drivers who tend to use them causes a lot more risky behavior.

[eru]

> Why, because people are rushing to beat the moment when charged go up during peak hour?

No, because congestion charging keeps traffic flowing nicely at all times. Congestion would otherwise slow innercity traffic down to a crawl at best and a jam at worst.

> Personally, I find that Singapore's prevalence of pay-per-minute car shares (because buying a car is so expensive) coupled with the inexperienced drivers who tend to use them causes a lot more risky behavior.

I don't see that many shared cars on the road to make much of a difference? They certainly exist, of course. When I hear specific complaints it's often often about cab (or grab) drivers, and occasionally about bus drivers imported from PRC.

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In any case, here I'm not objecting against anyone's specific bad behaviour, but mostly that we have so many stroads; and that cars drive fast (even the legal speed limit is very life threateningly dangerous to pedestrians).

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroad

I mostly like the walking experience inside of HDB complexes, with the void decks, little shops, and everything being pedestrianised and open to the general public. But the big stroads in between them are deadly.

[acover]

Because when there's no traffic people drive faster.

[eru]

Yes. And our congestion charge is explicitly adjusted upwards dynamically, when average speeds drop below a certain limit. (And is adjusted downwards, when average speeds are high enough.)

It's an awesome system, if all you care about is keeping traffic flowing. It does exactly what it was supposed to be doing. Works beautifully.