The NY Times recently wrote about a crash test demonstrating that if you crash a small car into a medium-sized car, occupants of the medium-sized car fare better. Duh. The article also uncritically quotes the president of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety with the conclusion that “downsizing and down-weighting [cars to save fuel] is [...]
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 [...]
Hackney, the London borough where I currently live, has removed some pedestrian barriers. Maybe they’ll remove even more; I don’t know. This is good news. In case you don’t understand why this is good news, I’ve taken some pictures to demonstrate a typical effect of these barriers at a junction here in London. The pictures [...]
You wouldn’t really think the Dutch needed public commercials trying to get more people to cycle, but there it is. Even if you don’t understand any Dutch (I don’t), it’s brilliant to watch these clips. Everyone is wearing everyday clothes. Cycling not as some sort of extreme sport, but as an everyday activity that is [...]
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Below are some books that I like. (I get money from Amazon if buy through these links.)
Peter D Norton's Fighting Traffic: Go back just a century to see when it was not taken for granted that children are responsible for staying out the way of cars:
