More controls, not just speed limits, will make roads safer.

Dangerous drivers must be ticketed, have their license revoked and/or be imprisoned. Anything else is just as effective as using noodles as ammunition in a gunfight.

The idea that traffic, rather than drivers, exhibit behavior that can be effectively changed through roadway design without displacing dangerous driving elsewhere is simply wrong. As our thoroughly mismanaged Baltimore City Department of Transportation on North Avenue has shown, intended “solutions” simply push bad drivers elsewhere (“More than 10% of Baltimore car accidents in 2024 occurred on a road,” December 1).

Well-intentioned, insane solutions touted by ideological special interests (or highway engineers and bureaucrats) require a hard data approach that few proponents have welcomed or supported. We have data, but not the foresight to use it. Yes, chicanes such as road narrowings can be “tested” as innovative options, but these are not solutions.

Dangerous drivers are not tolerated in Europe, and there is no reason to tolerate them here or to pretend that hard work creates better users. Baltimore’s early engagement with Complete Streets’ “philosophies” offers many teachable moments, provided leadership and advocates have the insight necessary to recognize how national policies have evolved.

—Dolph Druckman, Baltimore

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