uruloki’s lair

I don’t know about you, but when I’m driving in an area with little to no traffic signage or other guidelines I’m usually much more cautious. It turns out that pretty much everyone is:

A year after the change, the results of this “extreme makeover” were striking: Not only had congestion decreased in the ­intersection—­buses spent less time waiting to get through, for ­example—­but there were half as many accidents, even though total car traffic was up by a third. Students from a local engineering college who studied the intersection reported that both drivers and, unusually, cyclists were using ­signals—­of the electronic or hand ­variety—­more often. They also found, in surveys, that residents, despite the measurable increase in safety, perceived the place to be more dangerous.

It would be interesting if some of his theories could be applied in here in the U.S. rather than increasing the number of traffic cameras while shortening the yellow lights to make money.

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