Re: Less Control?
- From: Studemania <midlant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 11:39:29 -0800 (PST)
On Feb 6, 3:04 am, "Twice Retired" <phoen...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The Feb. issue of Scientific American has an interesting article regarding
traffic control in urban settings. Seems like less control moves traffic
much more efficiently and rapidly.
I haven't seen this article, but society exerts pressure on the law-
makers to "do someting about it." and actin is seen by the general
public as progress, not just action in response to pressure.
Random thoughts and memories:
After the "World Series" earthquake in the San Francosco, the traffic
lights in my area were not working and traffic movement through the
intersections was no slower than when the lights were working.
Near my house, there was an intersection that had stop signs on one
street, then they put stop signs for all directions, then they put in
traffic lights. Leaving my home, I came off a side street near this
place and noticed that the back-up got longer wih each 'improvement."
My City Councellor brought out a proposal to tie all trafic lights
into a giant web to easy traffic flow in our city.
I told him that this was a wet dream. He replied that he knew that, I
knew that, but by the time it was obvious to all, he would be term-
limited out of office.
There was a spot on my commute where there was a change in speed limit
at a curve and housing density increased.
The change was 30 to 60 or 60 to 30, depending on direction.
I pointed out to a workmate from city traffic departmemnt that this
resulted in a speed limit doubling about 100 yards before a stoplight.
He relied that it was much easier to do it this way than writing it
out srictly with safety in mind..
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