Absent Reykjavik-style innovations, deadly speeding is likely to grow worse, as Waze and other navigation aps direct hurried drivers off clogged freeways and onto surface streets.
Street reconfigurations called "road diets," which remove traffic lanes and give added weight to bikes and pedestrians, as well as the creation of connected bike lane networks, are nationally recognized as the best techniques to address deadly speeding.
The moves, coming after the government announced a safety review of high-speed rail on Wednesday, seemed to reflect heightened concern after a deadly high-speed rail crash last month.
Page A6 CHINA OFFERS SAFETY REVIEW China's response to a deadly high-speed rail accident on July 23 is to order a series of safety reviews.
Evidence of the suicide vehicle's deadly full-speed surge — a twisted metal exit gate — lay on its side on the grass in front of the building.
In one of the supposedly unlawful messages, Pu attacks a government official following the deadly high-speed rail crash in Wenzhou in 2011.
He shined as the party's chief crisis manager, campaigning for public accountability after disasters like the SARS epidemic of 2003, the earthquake in Sichuan Province in 2008, and a deadly high-speed-train crash in 2011.
HONG KONG — China's response to a deadly high-speed rail accident on July 23 is closely mirroring its reaction to meltdowns at three Japanese nuclear reactors after a powerful earthquake and tsunami in March.
In them, Pu comments on the cover-up of a deadly high-speed rail crash, mocks members of the Chinese Communist Party, and criticizes the government's handling of Tibet and Xinjiang.
The efforts of Chinese leaders to maintain social stability have been challenged this summer by ethnic violence in the western region of Xinjiang and a remarkable surge of public criticism over the government's handling of a deadly high-speed rail crash in Zhejiang Province.
