Since there are still some grown ups here, let's look at some pictures.
Here's is an underpass from a very suburban area near Liverpool. You may recall that Liverpool is the hometown of Riverman's engineer friend who provided the non-anecdote he's basing his entire argument on.
Anyway, as you can see, it's not that different from Waverley. The posted speed limit is 40 stones per hour. That's about the speed limit of Waverley near Taylor and the speed limit we're asking the underpass be designed to.
Here's a view from the ground:
"THAT'S SO BLOODY UNSAFE IT'S JUST NOT RIGHT," says Riverman's Liverpudlian friend. "Classic!," says Bdog, "part of it looks like it's 100 years old!"
Here's what Riverman thinks is the bare necessity for this underpass, lest we all perish in motorcar accidents.
Here's a link to a list of traffic fatalities by country:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ted_death_rate
Per 100 000 vehicles, Canada has 9.3
The States, where they love to overbuild road infrastructure for safety, has 13.6
The UK, where they've built this clearly dangerous and inadequate underpass that people on a 60km/h road should only drive through at 60km/h clocks in with a lowly 6.2 road deaths per 100 000 vehicles.
Moldova has 77.5 deaths per 100 000, since rskylar was bound to ask.