Public space

How’s this for an innovative, low-cost DIY traffic calming measure? A stretch of rope laid across the street:

Our Man in Tirana posted this in July and noted that cars “almost always slow to a crawl when approaching” it.
There’s a whole collection of community initiatives to take traffic calming into their own hands at the […]

The New Statesman had an article (in August) criticising the New Approach to Appraisal (Nata) rules for road building in the UK. Basically, Nata is a cost-benefit analysis framework for assessing proposals of road building projects, introduced by Labour in 1998.
The author comes down hard against Nata. He’s right in that some of the […]