DIY Traffic Calming

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by onreact-com • 17 years ago

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onreact-com• 17 years ago

Please DO NOT REMOVE my URLs.

This is not the same story as changed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=827719

How can you cripple a popular submission like that? This amounts to censorship.

tjic• 17 years ago

"Traffic Calming" strikes me as a bug, not a feature.

I can do "phone calming" but disconnecting a phone for a few hours each day.

I can do "mail calming" by threatening the postal delivery guy.

I can do "mall calming" by super glueing the locks in the doors.

Roads are engineered to get people from point A to point B while minimizing wasted time.

Traffic calming is aimed at undoing that engineering.

Boo.

pohl• 17 years ago

Residential streets are not designed for throughput. You make city-planning sound one-dimensional.

Maybe you don't have children.

mmt• 17 years ago

You make city-planning sound one-dimensional.

"If the shoe fits.."

A cafe on the corner doesn't sound residential, but, rather, mixed use at best.

More to the point, everywhere that I've seen traffic "calmed," the issue appears to be that there are no roads nearby designed for throughput, or, if they are, they are patently inadequate.

The other difficulty is that past city planning doesn't always line up with current city behavior.

DIY Traffic Calming

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