The Key to Slowing Traffic is Street Design, Not Speed Limits
“Most people believe the alternative to cars is better transit—in truth, it’s better neighborhoods.” 71
Paul Hawken • Natural Capitalism
In the last decade or so, a few iconoclasts have begun making roads more hazardous—narrowing them, reducing visibility, and removing curbs, center lines, guardrails, and even traffic signs and signals. These roads, research shows, are home to significantly fewer crashes and traffic fatalities.
Packy • Means and Meaning
The Vision Zero approach reveals that both approaches taken in the twentieth century—blaming road deaths and injuries entirely on drivers, or on pedestrians—were wrong. Rather than pitting these two overlapping groups against each other, Vision Zero shifts the responsibility somewhere else: to the designers of the road system, who are held
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