Posts Tagged ‘safety’
Traffic Calming via Mirage
A group in Canada has come up with a traffic calming solution they think will decrease the number of children hit by cars in school zones. They’ve created an optical illusion, a painting on the street which – as you approach – takes on the appearance of a little girl chasing a ball into the [...]
Asnychronous Travel
People often talk about the value of transit in reducing congestion, or in reducing commute times by providing an alternative to congested freeways. This is all fine, but there’s another benefit to efficient regional transit service that I personally find much more valuable. Transit provides travel redundancy – an additional option for people to get [...]
Like I said…
I thought this post on the Chron blogs was interesting, especially in light of my earlier post this week about cultural traffic calming. When talking about the experience of walking a few blocks from her parking area to City Hall, Tara had this to say: …I realized it is not the walk that bothers me, [...]
News Worth Reading
Two items from Houston Tomorrow that recently got my attention: Virginia: Build Grids, Not Cul-de-Sacs Studies identify keys to safer roads The overwhelming conclusion of both of these pieces is the same: older street patterns, grids where most streets are small and nearly all connect through the surrounding area, are safer, cheaper, and less congested. [...]