The recent increase in the number of changes in the Ukrainian legislation regarding vehicle operation. Reformers not only traffic rules, but also directly to the roads themselves.
Along with the new parking rules and accident registrationTo change and marking of the asphalt coating. These innovations are designed to reduce the number of violations and accidents among motorists.
Since September 1, will mark the road to European standards. The essence of the changes is that the bands become much narrower - by as much as half a meter, and freed of the motorway will be given to cyclists and public transport.
Guide regionstroya believes that the narrow band will make drivers drive a little slower, respectively, reduce the likelihood of an accident. But not so simple, because the effect can be reversed, and - the number of fatal crashes among cyclists will be many times more.
New tracks, and those that can be repaired will be built narrower, and on the existing ones just do re-initialization, highlighting two-way path for cyclists, the minimum width which can be less than 2.5 m. Here really more cause buy a bike!
The first reform "experience" on an urban street: motorway, urban values with a continuous flow of traffic decrease from 3.75 to 3.5 m, at less congested routes width becomes 3 m (currently 3.5 m) on smaller streets - 2.75 m (currently 3 m).
Earlier, we wrote about what are the most frequent causes of accidents.
