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Is Less Better? Removing the Signs, Lines, Stoplights from Streets

Eric Fredericks • Monday August 22, 2005

Revolutionary traffic engineering out of Europe (where else!) as reported by The Christian Science Monitor:

The idea of “shared space� is to denude a street of most of its conventional markings and features and create a different urban landscape in which motorists and pedestrians are put on an equal footing, so to speak. Drivers start to behave in a very different way amid the new uncertainty, moving slowly, making eye contact with pedestrians, and becoming aware of much more than whether the lights have gone red. Or so the theory goes. >>Continue Reading This Article>>

 
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