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Stefan writes: Why are there no international awards for fluid, safe intersections? Because western countries would never win. Europeans see themselves as good road-users and others as bad. Without regulation, they say, “there will be chaos”. In the…
I added these films of a pre-modern crossroads in Marrakesh, and how the
people create chaos by disobeying the rules. Let's send some of our traffic engineers over there to help out !
More about this and traffic in Morocco here .
Extension of my reply ; a longer (but readable i pretend) article against the 'speed kills' idea, which is the basis for speed limits and enforcement. Most of it you'll find on SafeSpeed.org and other sites, but it's always right to line up a collec…
Indeed, that's the work of David Engwicht (Mental Speed Bumps , Placemaking and more). Residents and shopkeepers must do exterior decorating, see and use the streets as corridors and squares as plazas. David has shown this makes all the difference:…
One must read the Safe Speed site. The research and arguments destroy the speed limit case. It boils down to: the safe speed (range) is always dependant on the situation, never on fixed limits.
(Author Paul Smith curiously advocated sensible limits,…
Comment Wall (2 comments)
- At 11:03am on May 8, 2009,
Ian Perry said… - Hi Stefan,
I'm very interested in the junctions in Utrecht where the traffic lights have been removed and the associated research by the cyclist group. Would you be able to send me some more details please?
Regards,
Ian
- At 10:34am on March 4, 2009,
Martin Cassini said…
- Look forward to your contributions, Stefan. In your profile or on a blog post you could insert a link to baluw if you like, although I just checked, and with it still being untranslated into English, it might not mean much to the group, even if there are members in different parts of the world. In that way we are quite insular.
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