On 10/15/07, Tord Eriksson <tord_at_tord.nu> wrote: > > > Here to most pedestrians get killed on, or near, crosswalks, so the clever > guys from the authority responsible have simply filed off most of them > with > some clever machine (some sort of gigantic router), thus decreased the > accident rate further! It's also a truism that most people who die in their sleep are found in bed. If we eliminate beds then we can save a lot of lives. > The weird thing is that it seems to work! Hmm. Those crosswalks that are left are now mostly combined with bumps, poles > and other mechnical and optical means to slow the drivers down to a crawl. If traffic slows to a standstill then accident rates approach zero. This is a well known law of traffic engineering (seriously!) and you may be living in a city where they apply it assiduously. Craig Jungers *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Oct 15 2007 - 16:51:25 PDT
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