[twelvechairs]

A huge part of poorly designed roads is wider lanes (and parking spaces) that allow/encourage huge cars. Its been proven that narrower lanes correlate strongly with lower crash and fatality rates (e.g. [0] below) yet lane widths are under pressure to increase with larger vehicles, and every time this happens the vehicles get larger again.

[0] https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2023/narrower-lanes-safer-stree...

[FridayoLeary]

I heard the fire department wants wide lanes so they can drive around in those huge behemoths they love.

[IAmBroom]

People living in buildings that are currently aflame tend to be fans of those behemoths. Speaking from experience.

[FridayoLeary]

In Europe they're smaller. I don't know if the fires are also smaller.

[ajuc]

Surely that's not THE determining factor behind American transportation system.

Because if it is - seems easy and cheap to fix.

[ponector]

But they can easily use more than one lane, why should they care about lane width?

[542354234235]

It is part of it. Notjustbikes did a video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2dHFC31VtQ

[CalRobert]

Higher speeds, too.