The reason these traffic calming devices work is because drivers are more worried about damaging their own vehicles than they are about driving dangerously or illegally breaking the speed limit.
Behold my favorite traffic calming device.
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How-Sen
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- This could have been twenty-five people sitting alone in their cars, stuck in traffic.NYC is better than Disneyland today…. 72F
00:00 - I am not against cars. I own a car. What I’m actually against is a world designed where cars are the only way to get around.
- In the 00's, a car company made this commercial that accidentally exposed how much space is wasted by car-centric road design. What’s crazy: The most unrealistic part of this video is how it shows *too many people* — because the average car on the road has just 1.5 people in it.
00:00 - Why does an airport with massive airline fees and luxury retail stores have volunteers?For your convenience, we’ve added more than 30 new volunteers to our Welcome Team and placed them strategically throughout the terminals to help passengers get to their flight on time.
- Whenever someone says “But roads are built for cars!” remind them that roads predate automobiles by literally thousands of years.
- This is considered a ‘normal-sized’ car and is therefore legal for a 16-year old to drive on a learner’s permit.
- This is a 1907 postcard of the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City. Do you notice something… different?
- Few things have politicized me more against car culture than being in charge of a 2-year old and walking on the sidewalk.
- A reminder that emergency vehicle sirens are loud enough to literally cause permanent damage to human hearing. … and the only reason that they’re this loud is because cars are both (a) insulated from the outside world and (b) blocking the way.
- A reminder that the 401 is an 18-lane highway that moves only 400,000 cars a day. In order to increase capacity by 50%, you’d need to build a NINE LANE, 30m wide tunnel, running for 40km. The widest tunnel in the world is 24m wide and runs just 165 meters in length.
- People are saying that this streetcar is ‘empty’. But most cars are emptier than this streetcar. More than half the cars on the road have just the driver in it. That’s 20% full. This ‘empty’ looking streetcar has 20-30 people in it. Seating capacity is 70. That’s 30% full.love it here in snowy streetcar city
00:00 - Every big box store should be forced to take in and recycle the waste from the products that they sell. Sell paint? Take in paint cans. Sell batteries? Take used batteries. Sell electronics? You’re also an electronics recycler now.
