Traffic Calming Using Obsolute Principles

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Homer
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Traffic Calming Using Obsolute Principles

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Traffic Calming aims to reduce speeds and increase safety. Some of the measures, i.e. speed bumps, force drivers to slow down. Some change road design to catch the driver's attention at critical areas. Some measures, now discredited, decreased the safety margin between cars/trucks and the vulnerable bicyclists and pedestrians. The theory was the decreased margin would force non-psychotic drivers to be much more careful. Such measures failed.

The powers that be in one Romanian town apparently were working from an old document on traffic calming. One that said if you remove all controls at an intersection, people will proceed with caution.

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I wonder who is to blame in the eyes of the insurance companies.
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