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 […]
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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 are […]