The recent pop-sociology book "Traffic" is on Saturday House' library bookshelf and discusses these topics, FYI.
On Jan 26, 2009, at 10:32 AM, Gregory Heller wrote: > 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
