BIKE: Roads Gone Wild

[Bob Farr]

Mike Dhamus wrote:

> Patrick Goetz wrote:
>
>> Bob Farr wrote:
>>
>>>> From WIRED on-line:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.12/traffic_pr.html
>>> Roads Gone Wild
>>> No street signs. No crosswalks. No accidents. Surprise: Making driving seem 
>>> more dangerous could make it safer.
>>>
>>>
(SNIP)

> (if your argument is that we should immediately somehow rebuild the suburbs so 
> that intersections are frequently spaced and design speeds much lower, then 
> please just say so and spare me the trouble of bothering with a response from 
> the land of the World As It Actually Exists).
>
> - MD

Actually, that's exactly where I was going with it.

Another quote from the referenced article:
"
Instead of widening congested highways, New Jersey's DOT is urging neighboring 
or contiguous towns to connect their secondary streets and add smaller centers 
of development, creating a series of linked minivillages with narrow roads, 
rather than wide, car-choked highways strewn with malls. "The cities that 
continue on their conventional path with traffic and land use will harm 
themselves, because people with a choice will leave," says Lockwood. "They'll go 
to places where the quality of life is better, where there's more human 
exchange, where the city isn't just designed for cars. The economy is going to 
follow the creative class, and they want to live in areas that have a sense of 
place. That's why these new ideas have to catch on. The folly of traditional 
traffic engineering is all around us."
"
--
Bob Farr (living in the real world, but holding out for better)