Fwd: [CrowdDynamics] Naked Streets Experiment

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Fwd: [CrowdDynamics] Naked Streets Experiment

Owen Densmore
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> From: [hidden email]
> Date: January 22, 2005 3:33:13 AM MST
> To: [hidden email]
> Subject: [CrowdDynamics] Digest Number 523
>
> Message: 1
>    Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 01:36:04 -0000
>    From: "antstig" <[hidden email]>
> Subject: Naked Streets Experiment
>
>
> "Imagine, for a moment, a busy downtown intersection with no traffic
> lights, signs or sidewalks.
>
> There are no markers on the ground, no speed bumps, no police officer
> conducting the flow of vehicles. There's not even a curb. Every
> element of traffic ? pedestrians, bikers and drivers ? is left to
> fend for itself."
>
> "[...]Urban planners in Holland, Germany and Denmark have
> experimented with this free-for-all approach to traffic management
> and have found it is safer than the traditional model, lowers trip
> times for drivers and is a boost for the businesses lining the
> roadway.
>
> The idea is that by removing traffic lights, signage and sidewalks,
> drivers and pedestrians are forced to interact, make eye contact and
> adapt to the traffic instead of relying blindly on whether that
> little dot on the horizon is red or green."
> More:
> http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/ 
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>
> Regards
>
> Frank Wood