there are some interesting studies and initiatives to remove things like high curbs, traffic signs and signals, and add more street surface markings. Many european cities are more like this, and it causes drivers to pay more attention to what is happening around them, rather than looking 10, 18 or 20 feet in the air at signs and signals all way above the things they may actually run into.
Robert Eickmann wrote: > A big part of the problem i that our roads in america are too safe. We > are able to be have cell phones, GPS units with sexy British voices > yelling at us, to turn right and in dash fondue pots because the roads > are designed so we can safely drive on them 40% faster than the posted > speed limit. > > We have huge wide expanses of road everywhere, even where you don't > need them. You really need to be able to put cars four abreast on a > residential street in Bellevue, where every house has a drive way? > Seriously? > > We need bigger and better crashes, we also need to not clean up the > messes of auto accidents as fast as we do. Seriously if you drive past > a place where a car hit a oil tanker truck and killed four people, you > would slow down the next time that you drove down that stretch of > road. When I lived out in the country the places where I saw deer > frequently you can bet that I slowed down and flipped on the high > beams. > > Anyway we need less safe roads, with more roadway distractions so > people don't get complacent while drinking their quad iced starbucks > drink with ignited fourth of july sparklers, while fiddling with their > eight track player in their hummer H5 tank edition, with option chrome > treads. That will enable them to do the right thing and mow down every > hippie bicyclist in the painted bike lane er drive safely. > > -Rob > > > > > On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Gregory Heller <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> They may actually slow down traffic, thus causing fewer accidents, >> especially the variety that involve pedestrians and cyclists. >> >> Rogan Creswick wrote: >> >> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Kyle Mulka <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> Not that I'm against ladybugs in intersections or anything, but >> wouldn't these distract drivers and cause more accidents? >> >> >> I can't imagine it would be that much worse than listening to the >> radio, or drinking a cup of coffee. >> >> There will always be distractions -- can't we emphasize the importance >> of *driving* when erm, driving, rather than try to eliminate all of >> the distractions?</rant> >> >> Ok, I'm done :) >> >> --Rogan >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> ---- >> Gregory Heller >> http://www.GregoryHeller.com >> http://delicious.com/GregoryHeller >> http://twitter.com/gregoryheller >> >> > > > > > -- ---- Gregory Heller http://www.GregoryHeller.com http://delicious.com/GregoryHeller http://twitter.com/gregoryheller --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Website: http://saturdayhouse.org/ Post: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
