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Knockknees posted:gently caress, I hate to think of an ambulance racing to the hospital going over that. And, isn't this the thread where I read about a police officer dying from a snapped neck speeding over a speed bump? I know this isn't as high as those but, yeah, seems like not a great idea maybe. Pretty sure ambulances and police would have transmitters that make the bump not activate.
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KozmoNaut posted:Electronics fail all the time. Agreed. If I designed such a system, I would try to make it so that if power failed, or the speed radar failed, or anything failed at all, it should NOT activate. I.e. "locked into place" should be the default state unless a magnetic coil is powered, which pulls the support out, or similar. I'm pretty sure the reason that thing was in the news recently is that it has just been tested over a Swedish winter, and as I understood it it came out OK. Edit: A google-translated excerpt from the Swedish transport authority's report on the project, looks fairly promising but seems like they are not rolling it out on a big scale yet. quote:The project aimed to develop an active speed bump that makes it possible to combine good accessibility and safety for professional drivers with low speed and a safe traffic environment for vulnerable road users such as pedestrians and cyclists. Hippie Hedgehog fucked around with this message at 12:50 on Mar 26, 2012 |
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thehustler posted:My wife and I just came back from our honeymoon in North America. We were due to drive from Toronto up to Quebec City and back for a little road trip (I don't drive so it was all on her). After seeing how people drive over there, she was all nervous, and bailed on the plan and we stayed in Toronto all week instead. You don't mention which country you're from, but I assume it's not in southern or eastern Europe. People there drive way crazier than Americans. Try Istanbul or Athens, for example. But the bright side is, you get used to it! You'll be just as bad yourself after a few weeks in that environment.
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Cichlidae posted:Perhaps Germany has sovereign immunity. I know we've waived ours in Connecticut, because we get sued for every little thing. The most recent occurrence was when a tree fell on someone's car on the Merritt Parkway; we inspect the trees regularly, but it had rotted in the meantime and fell over. Nah, the German state doesn't have sovereign immunity, not according to Wikipedia anyway. (I thought that concept only applied in old-fashioned backwards monarchies like Sweden, where the regent cannot be prosecuted, but apparently the US fed government has that, too?) I think you can chalk it up to different concepts of how to keep the state from making crappy laws. In most of Europe, you as a citizen cannot hold lawmakers liable for not disallowing dangerous behavior. I'm sure there's a Latin word for this... If the state makes it legal for you to do a stupid thing and get hurt, you have no grounds to sue because you are still responsible for your actions. There is generally some mechanism to revert laws which are unconstitutional, but it doesn't necessarily involve neither courts nor damages. But, on the other hand, if the state itself breaks a law, causing damage to you, you can sue for (actual) damages. TL;DR: Germans can't sue the state for making it legal to go fast, but not because of sovereign immunity.
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Cichlidae posted:Wow, now it makes sense why they call it 'sovereign.' I'm not really an expert on German law, but I agree that it looks weird if your stealing the car has any bearing on who's held responsible for the accident. That doesn't sound right. Usually this kind of laws are pretty similar across the EU. I know for a fact that the other driver would be held responsible in Sweden, where I live. You're both committing crimes while driving, but only his reckless driving has any bearing on responsibility for the accident. Ultimately, what matters is how you drive, not how you came to be on the road in the first place. In the end, he would probably be arrested either for reckless driving (loss of license and up to 2 years in prison if anyone was badly hurt), or involuntary manslaughter if you die. And his insurance company would cover damages to you resulting from the criminal case; there is likely no civil liability even though he's at fault. These would be mainly actual damages, such as cost of new car and rehabilitation, and loss of salary if you're hospitalized, but also some small compensation for "pain and suffering" (in the order of 230€ per month). If you caused the accident while driving a stolen car, you'd be in a shitpile of financial trouble due to not having insurance, though. The other guy's insurance company would pay his expenses and then sue you in a civil case, as I understand it. And that crap about "attractive nuisance" sounds like a lot of money down the drain... Hippie Hedgehog fucked around with this message at 13:14 on Apr 23, 2012 |
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Fragrag posted:Is there a difference between American and European cyclists? I keep hearing how American cyclists are quite aggressive and I'm starting to think it's not a grandma on a citybike that they're talking about. Haha, that is indeed quite ridiculous. Thanks for giving me a laugh! I like how he seems to have posted all the email feedback he's gotten telling him to get over it etc.
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Volmarias posted:Like asking someone if they're a police officer, that's an urban myth. It sounds like you might want to speak to a lawyer for a better CYA. I'm not sure exactly how that article relates to this thread, it being about copyright and all, but I can imagine that the OP would be much better off depositing any paperwork with a lawyer instead of mailing them to himself.
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NihilismNow posted:I know things the GPS doesn't for example that friday night is not a good night to use the A4 southbound. Some navigation software tries to integrate this information but by all accounts it is still lacking. I'm continuing this derail. Sorry, but navigation is a fun subject! Fun fact: You phone operator always knows where your phone is. They have to know, otherwise they couldn't route calls to you. This info can be collected for one or all subscribers via what's called a Mobile Positioning System. Some telecom operators (at least in Sweden, I don't know how prevalent this is elsewhere) will collect this location info from their network (and presumably anonymize the data). This location info for every subscriber is then correlated with geographical info on location of roads. This way they can find out where traffic is slow without even anyone on the road using a GPS! The operator can then sell this real-time information to GPS software vendors, who may send out traffic alerts to GPS owners. This is one of the services you won't get on freeware nav software. Although for instance Waze does a decent job of the same thing by checking on speed of their own users, they have too few users in my city to make any useful predictions for my travel time. Phone networks are fun! NihilismNow posted:Also turn by turn navigation sucks down a entire battery charge in 2 hours flat. Well, there is such a thing as 12V phone chargers... NihilismNow posted:I just hope traffic engineers don't feel good signage on motorways is redundant. Won't someone think of me and my fellow luddites! I'm inclined to agree with you, but I really don't think you have to worry. Signs will still be used for as long as you or I are driving.
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Baronjutter posted:Am I a horrible person for not having much sympathy for people killed by trains when there's at least some sort of sign or bell ? It seems like most of the times cars and trucks and even people are creamed by a train it's some idiot who knew full well a train is there but impatiently tries to beat it. In a rural area put up a highly visible sign along with the correct road markings. In more built up areas make sure there's flashers and maybe a gate. If fatalities happen after that, it's suicide not a dangerous crossing. I just saw on the news today that there have been four people killed recently by trains here in Sweden, all wearing headphones. The train drivers had all sounded the signal, but they were apparently not heard. The last victim was an 11-year old girl, who was hit by a tram yesterday but thankfully survived. The Swedish Transport Administration just went out and recommended that people should avoid wearing headphones in traffic, though there is not (yet) any law against it. So, flashers with bells might never have been idiot-proof, but considering the increasing amount of people listening to music, they are even less so now. Technology just gave us a new, improved, idiot... (For any Swedish speakers or GTranslate users: http://www.svd.se/nyheter/inrikes/horlurar-bakom-dodsolyckor_7432904.svd)
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kapinga posted:I forget where I read this in the past few weeks, but I've heard that cell companies are able to correlate the motion of cell phones across their towers with traffic on major highways. They then sell this information for fun and profit (actually it sounds like an excellent idea as long as it's anonymous). Maybe you got it from my post saying that a couple of pages back.  It's a neat idea, isn't it? Cichlidae posted:The Newport Bridge was built in 1969 and has 63m clearance and a 490m span, about the same as the Oresund bridge (2000). The Storbaelt bridge (1998) has 3 times the span with the same clearance, but it's a fixed link and includes a tunnel section. Vasco da Gama (1998) has 45m clearance and a 450m span. Might be worth noting that even the Storbaelt bridge can't accomodate the tallest cruise ships. A couple of new ships were built in Finland a couple of years back, and in order to get them under that bridge, they had to make a custom-made smoke stack that could be collapsed. And even then, they had to pass the bridge at speed in order to clear it (thanks to the squat effect)! (Yes, sounds terribly dangerous, and they did cordon off the bridge for the first (night-time) passage.) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39909997/ns/travel-cruise_travel/t/worlds-largest-cruise-ship-clears-bridge-obstacle/ Hippie Hedgehog fucked around with this message at 20:44 on Aug 28, 2012 |
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Baronjutter posted:Also no don't worry about bikes getting their wheels stuck in the tram tracks, they'll totally use those rubber strips that tram wheels can depress but bike wheels just drive over. I never heard of those rubber thingies, does anyone have pictures of those? My city has tons of trams, but bicyclists just have to learn to cope with the tracks. I've only seen someone fall over once (though that was a pretty bad). As long as you cross at more than a 40 degree angle or so, it's generally no problem.
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Baronjutter posted:They aren't used very much because they have to be replaced often but rubber flange fillers are used. Generally not for tram tracks, more for railroad crossings. But I'm sure they could be used at key trouble-spots on some tram lines. We have the technology, it's just too expensive for most transit systems. Cool, thanks, now I could google "rubber flange filler" and find out more. Was missing the proper term for it. I found this in a comment on a traffic blog, so take it with a grain of salt, but it seems like flange filler is not practical for trams. =( quote:Flange filler: Zuerich & Basel both tried it out, and it works for train tracks where train traffic is occasional (3 -5 times per day), but tram tracks have a different geometry, and the hard rubber gets compressed too often and crumbles. VBZ (Vertrieb…zuerich) did extensive tests over many years, and finally they had to conclude that it was a no-go. If we have similar types of wheels, he predicts Full report at http://www.altaplanning.com/App_Content/files/pres_stud_docs/Bicycle_Streetcar_Memo.pdf
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mamosodiumku posted:Is there a reason they would make a roundabout inside a roundabout, or was it just a bad idea from the beginning? Looking at the satellite pictures and Street View, there are stop lines and signals all over that circle, so I don't think it really works like a regular roundabout. Looks like the drivers in the circle would yield to traffic entering it! That is so confusing. Ninja edit: Looks like they also have the bike boxes, but for motorbikes?
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Volmarias posted:Some assholes are going to spend all day trigging ped signaling when no one is actually going to cross, and it's going to screw up traffic Did you notice how long the green phase is for the cars? Don't worry, that crossing is probably super busy with peds so it's gonna be triggered all day anyway.
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A little something for the public transport geeks in here, courtesy of the Danish "Midttrafik". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snKbU5r0pBo
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Grundulum posted:Are there any measures in place (anywhere, really) to prevent unscrupulous contractors from bidding low or bidding short with the expectation of cost/time overruns? I would think that running late on public construction projects would net the contractor a fine per day or similar, right? I believe that's mostly the case around my country anyway.
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T.Worth posted:I lived in a place for about six years on and off that had no posted speed limit on well maintained rural roads. I found that the speed drove at was highly dependent on road conditions. A nice sunny day during the dry season on a gun barrel straight section of road? 160-180kmh in my work v6, 190-210kmh in my personal v8. Regular road during the wet season? About 160 would be the max I was comfortable with. Now you have to tell us where this was. At least which country.
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Jonnty posted:To understand why our level crossings are the way they are you've got to understand that in the UK we've come from a situation where 19th century laws required all road crossings to look something like this: You British really are completely mad about "health & safety"! That said, I was really impressed when I heard about the safety record of the Japanese Shinkansen railways. No fatalities since they opened ... in 1964! All while transporting almost 7 billion passengers at high speeds. I guess they don't have any level crossings at all. (Disregarding a single fatality caused by doors closing on a passenger, according to the 'pedia.)
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mamosodiumku posted:Rail is amazing in Japan. You're never much more than a 10 minute walk from a rail station in the cities. Without Japanese level crossings, we would never have had this masterpiece of animation: http://youtu.be/lC2PS7k9agE?t=4m18s
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El Chingon posted:The current government is implementing a public transportation system named METROBUS, Istanbul (one of the worst traffic situations in Europe) recently implemented this system, and are also incidentally calling it Metrobus. I've not used it, but people I asked when I was there seemed to think it was a pretty nice stopgap replacement for a subway line (which will never come). It seemed common for people to have to change between the Metrobus trunk line and local lines to get where they were going, or walk some way. Edit: Here is a major Metrobus interchange stop. I was staying in a hotel overlooking it, and the buses seemed to run on a frequent schedule. http://goo.gl/maps/xM319 Of course, if the buses are overcrowded, they need to add more buses, but that shouldn't be a problem, right? Regarding lanes, the point is obviously to make sure the buses run faster than traffic, and punctually, to encourage commuters to take the bus, thus reducing traffic on the highway, so the remaining lanes should be enough. Whether that will work is a different story, but I can totally sympathize with the intent, particularly in Mexico City's overloaded traffic. Hippie Hedgehog fucked around with this message at 16:52 on Feb 19, 2013 |
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El Chingon posted:I also wonder if different nations/culture react different to traffic. I really thought we were one of the worst drivers in the world until I visited China, they are crazy drivers although their city/transit planning is way better than ours. Speaking of Istanbul, I would nominate their taxi drivers to be some of the worst (& bravest) in the world. Out of maybe 20 taxi trips there, I've been scared shitless for at least half. And speaking of Chinese drivers, it's never too soon to re-read this brilliant blog post: http://soimgoingtochina.blogspot.se/2007/06/beijing-traffic-lesson-left-turn.html
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There's been lots of mention of "rails to trails" projects in this thread. This one seems slightly different, with a mile-long tunnel being converted.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-20429500 posted:The tunnel will be part of a longer route which cuts through the south of Bath avoiding the hilly parts of the city for cyclists and walkers. http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2013/mar/22/two-tunnels-opens-cyclists-bath But why would they turn off the lights between 11pm and 5am?
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Install Gentoo posted:I'm not seeing what the point of the right of way signs are, in America an intersection like that would generally have no signage at all on the higher priority road. Unless one road is an arterial, there is no need for any signs at all. Americans would (in some states?) treat it as a four-way stop, while most Europeans follow the Vienna convention and thus the Priority to the right rule. The thing is, European arterials are not always very obvious, so lawmakers felt a need to signpost them. That's the right-of-way sign, which is tiny and looks like this:  The driver knows he doesn't have to yield to vehicles coming from his right. That driver, in turn, would probably find a yield sign at the crossroads. Sounds simple, right? Of course, most people don't pay attention to whether the road is the signposted as arterial, so you get lots of situations where a driver is going down a non-arterial-road that looks kinda wider than the other roads and assumes it's an arterial. In the town where I grew up, the right-hand rule was obeyed religiously, so such behavior would sometimes result in accidents. Hippie Hedgehog fucked around with this message at 18:16 on Apr 11, 2013 |
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Chaos Motor posted:In short, fuel taxes for transportation funding were once barely adequate, now they are not only completely inadequate but unable to be adequate despite any amount of political wrangling. The way forward is user fees, which is how every other industry in the world is funded! You pay for what you use, no more, no less, it's that f'ing simple. Well, that, or do what socialist Scandinavia does: use whatever money the government has lying around (which is a lot since we tax the poo poo out of everything). It's not a law of nature that fuel taxes go to infrastructure, that's just a convenient way to make fuel taxes feel less painful to drivers. On the other hand, we don't let users pay the full price of education, healthcare or a number of other critical infrastructures in society. (Roads are an industry? Not in my country!) Edit: My hometown introduced user fees ("congestion tax") on roads to finance new construction. After a public outrage, it looks like there's going to be a referendum to recall the fees...
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Chaos Motor posted:Uhhh, people are paying the full price, just through a mechanism that obscures costs. I'm sorry for bringing this subject up, and I should have known better. Going back to traffic engineering... Why are people so bad at adapting their speed to the road conditions? (And why the compulsion to post it on the Internet?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eem0ScklhjU Edit: Just saw this piece about the Tesla "super charging" stations. They only installed two of them yet, I guess? Are there other options for charging an electric car on the road in the eastern U.S? http://money.cnn.com/2013/02/15/autos/tesla-model-s/ Hippie Hedgehog fucked around with this message at 22:15 on Apr 16, 2013 |
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squeakyneb posted:Is there any reason that this intersection has two routes through it running south to north? http://goo.gl/maps/kVZKD I'm just guessing here, but it looks like it provides an extra northbound lane for almost zero cost, since those ramps would have been built anyway.
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John Dough posted:Looking at Streetview, a cheap solution could be to convert the sidewalk on one side of the road into a bikepath, and the other side into a pedestrian route with no bikes allowed. Broaden the bikepath where possible, and add a railing. That was my first thought as well. That solution does require widening the pavement on the bike side, since it currently looks a bit too narrow to have two bikes meet at reasonably high speeds. Would involve moving a few lamp posts on the bike side. Not sure which is worse though, having no railing and risking running into traffic, or running the risk of falling head over heels over a railing, into traffic... Hippie Hedgehog fucked around with this message at 14:05 on Jun 24, 2013 |
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Cichlidae posted:I made a diagram of the volumes on I-91 NB. Full PDF is here. That's pretty cool! What kind of use will this diagram see?
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GWBBQ posted:doesn't that seem like an awful place to put an office building with a 3000 car garage? Kinda. Guess they're gonna have to squeeze all that traffic through Washington Bvd.
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Fragrag posted:So at what point do you exit the car? The video kinda glossed over it. I would guess you exit the car after parking it in the above-ground entrance, then punch in your code or swipe your credit card or whatever, before it will accept the car. grover posted:With as much space as the arm and horizontal storage is taking up, why not just build a conventional underground garage and have people drive in? It looks like a pretty small garage. The down- and up ramps would probably take up a huge percentage of the available area, and take more space on the surface. Like all automated garages, it doesn't make sense unless land is hugely expensive, like in Tokyo or Amsterdam. Hippie Hedgehog fucked around with this message at 15:57 on Jul 31, 2013 |
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Jaguars! posted:I think on any reasonably busy intersection the pedestrian crossings should be further back from the intersection for a roundabout. I did find one that was like your one, but it was on a tiny residential intersection that will never even have enough traffic to build queues. And shouldn't they also have a yield stripe across the entrances? Yeah, I don't think that was ever remade properly, looks like they just plopped an island in the middle of the intersection and called it a day.
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Another article on Dutch cycling culture. Apparently the UK are also trialling roundabouts with bike priority, in Berkshire! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23587916 The BBC posted:The fact that everyone cycles, or knows someone who does, means that drivers are more sympathetic to cyclists when they have to share space on the roads. vvv Well, that's disappointing, but possibly in London next year is better than never! Hippie Hedgehog fucked around with this message at 21:03 on Aug 11, 2013 |
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jryand posted:I thought you guys might like this Is that real? Reminds me of this spiralling road in Tokyo, but without trains and not over water. https://maps.google.com/maps?q=toky...+Japan&t=h&z=17
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PkerUNO posted:As a counterpoint, you may want to rethink that. Well, those guys were using it commercially, for consumer behavior analysis. that's why people were upset, just as they were when Google was logging every Wifi hotspot their mapmobiles drove past. I'm sure they wouldn't object to the local municipality using the same information for improving traffic. (Would they, though? Big Data, tinfoil hats, etc.) E: Who drives around with bluetooth enabled? That's how you catch cell phone viruses! Hippie Hedgehog fucked around with this message at 21:49 on Aug 16, 2013 |
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grover posted:Could you buy that meta-information from google? They already have implied consent (since it's used for google's traffic), and a ton of data. Google wouldn't have their position info, though, unless they're tracking every individual who is using the navigation app. Which I guess they could be doing, but that's far from a majority of passers-by, I'd bet. On the other hand, telecom companies are wholesaling positioning info all the time, and everyone has a cell phone... Hippie Hedgehog fucked around with this message at 15:35 on Aug 20, 2013 |
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Install Windows posted:Then there just shouldn't be cars there as a thing on a daily basis, you know? Honestly the whole idea seems like a way to halfass truly excluding the car from daily traffic in a given street. I believe there are already places where you basically need to get specific permission to bring cars onto the street during the day. Setting a 5 mph speed limit would effectively stop people driving there, unless they really really need to.
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Jonny Nox posted:Depends, if it's in America or Canada where the cult of the individual reigns supreme, they will just drive it anyways, and probably speed. Would you be looking at something like this, then? Gothenburg's suburb of Hjällbo, a shining example of 60's social democrat planned communities. Edit: Transport infrastructure starts at 16:30. My favorite quote is probably, at 17:25, with reference to the light rail, "What I like best is that it takes you just a short time to get into [the] city, to do something. You can't do anything out there." Says a lot about the problems built into these suburbs. BTW, those trams pictured are still running, albeit complemented by more modern ones with AC and such. Hippie Hedgehog fucked around with this message at 08:11 on Aug 23, 2013 |
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Lead out in cuffs posted:Yeah Swedish urban design is often classic Garden City, and only really works because the society has such a low gini coefficient, baked-in egalitarianism, and the tax base to build and maintain infrastructure. Unfortunately they never had a failure on the scale of the 50s and 60s era housing projects to convince them of the unworkability of high-density housing standing alone in a park in the middle of nowhere. Hey, who said it ever worked? =) Well, apart from that documentary... Right from the start, there was a huge problem with segregation, and those community centers they brag about in the video were mostly decommissioned by 1980. Nowadays, Hjällbo is populated mainly by low-income earners and immigrants, as the rents are fairly cheap (and it's all rental, more or less). I guess you could trace the early segregation to where those residents lived before - in the city slums, which were demolished, as shown in the same film. They went from having no running water and wood-fire heating in a tiny slum apartment, to a modern but slightly anonymous apartment block, where the rent was hugely subsidized by the state so they could afford modern standard. They were still pretty poor working-class people, though, and it's stayed that way even 50 years later. We don't really do it that way anymore, I think the last suburb to be fully planned like that was in the 1970s. The rest has mostly been "organic" growth. Lead out in cuffs posted:The part in that video about excluding traffic from the city centre was a bit sad, too. When we arrived in Gothenburg by train, we found ourselves (as pedestrians) having to cross this: Well, to be fair, there's a pedestrian tunnel + ground-level crosswalk 20m off in one direction (http://goo.gl/maps/6n52H), and a signalized crosswalk with generous-to-pedestrian timings 30m in the other direction (http://goo.gl/maps/alseu). If you did want to cross right there, that's fine with me, but you'd have to jump the fence, I guess. On the bright side, they just converted one more NW-bound lane into bus lane, and as part of replacing the bridge across the river, that street is no longer going to be a thoroughfare. (Within the next 10 years of so.) Other than that, I think the city center more or less works. There is some gradual narrowing of streets to make room for better bike lanes, and some new bus lanes being made, so drivers are complaining a bit, but with the recent congestion tax, I do think traffoc improved for the better. Lead out in cuffs posted:While true, it is certainly possible to design an area where people can easily walk, bike, take transit, and own a single car for occasional use. The issue comes with values: when people consider it a fundamental right to be able to drive as much as they want and own as many cars as they want, no matter the consequences for society, the consequences for society are pretty dire. So true. Having high fuel taxes seems to help a bit (over $8 per gallon makes you not drive so much), but that's all based on people accepting such a tax as not violating their basic freedoms. It all begins with values. Edit: Cichlidae posted:you're going to have a tough time convincing people to walk. It's not like that design is impossible, you just need a fine-grained system of public transport, or a huge uptake of biking. Though Tokyo certainly has the former, and people there do an awful lot of walking to/from the train/bus etc. Copenhagen/Amsterdam are good examples of the latter, why walk when you can roll? Hippie Hedgehog fucked around with this message at 22:53 on Aug 23, 2013 |
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How common are casualties in road crew workers, from getting run over? I get a feeling that it must happen all the time. Anyway, here's a Swedish robotic arm that paints road markings. Apologies for the Google translation, but I think you can make sense of most of it. http://translate.google.se/translat...icle3759897.ece quote:Longitudinal lines on the roadway have long been painted with machines. But arrows, speed limits and pedestrian crossings have been painted entirely by hand. Hippie Hedgehog fucked around with this message at 08:49 on Sep 15, 2013 |
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Hedera Helix posted:The two biggest roundabouts here have stop signs at the approaches. Is this actually not a good design? A roundabout is supposed to be free-flowing. The entering driver should yield to traffic in the circle. In other words, if there is no one in the circle, you can just enter it, and not stop. It's good for traffic flow, fuel consumption, noise etc. Stop signs in general just feel like a suboptimal compromise, thrown in when you can't afford a signal, or visibility is too limited for a yield sign.
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