Comment Re:Wired (Score 1) 604
as The Wired article notes this has already happened in the U.S. and worked in South Florida.
Qoute The Wired:
In the US, traffic engineers are beginning to rethink the dictum that the car is king and pedestrians are well advised to get the hell off the road. In West Palm Beach, Florida, planners have redesigned several major streets, removing traffic signals and turn lanes, narrowing the roadbed, and bringing people and cars into much closer contact. The result: slower traffic, fewer accidents, shorter trip times. "I think the future of transportation in our cities is slowing down the roads," says Ian Lockwood, the transportation manager for West Palm Beach during the project and now a transportation and design consultant. "When you try to speed things up, the system tends to fail, and then you're stuck with a design that moves traffic inefficiently and is hostile to pedestrians and human exchange."
been to west palm it's nice and a small town. The common thinking that this only affects small towns though might not be correct and while congestion in Africa where there are no road signs or stop lights is more due to problems with infastructure i.e. not enough roads for the vechiles and would probably increase if stop lights were added. Perhaps Manhattan could use fewer traffic rules and better design.
Qoute The Wired:
In the US, traffic engineers are beginning to rethink the dictum that the car is king and pedestrians are well advised to get the hell off the road. In West Palm Beach, Florida, planners have redesigned several major streets, removing traffic signals and turn lanes, narrowing the roadbed, and bringing people and cars into much closer contact. The result: slower traffic, fewer accidents, shorter trip times. "I think the future of transportation in our cities is slowing down the roads," says Ian Lockwood, the transportation manager for West Palm Beach during the project and now a transportation and design consultant. "When you try to speed things up, the system tends to fail, and then you're stuck with a design that moves traffic inefficiently and is hostile to pedestrians and human exchange."
been to west palm it's nice and a small town. The common thinking that this only affects small towns though might not be correct and while congestion in Africa where there are no road signs or stop lights is more due to problems with infastructure i.e. not enough roads for the vechiles and would probably increase if stop lights were added. Perhaps Manhattan could use fewer traffic rules and better design.
