Reading this article reminded me of an instance where something pretty amazing happened one day. I live in Albany, NY, and one day I was driving home along Central Avenue, which is aptly named and is one of the busiest roads in the city, if not the busiest. It was around rush hour, there was heavy traffic, and for some reason, all of the traffic lights were out. Completely out, for a mile or two at least. But that wasn't the part that amazed me. What was amazing was that traffic was still flowing, people were people courteous and letting people turn on from side streets, and there was hardly even any holdup in traffic. Traffic moved right along and I was soon out of the area affected by the outage.
I'm not saying that we shouldn't have traffic lights at all, but I think the people who are promoting this idea are not as dead-wrong as some might think. (Also, it's probably important to note that European cities use roundabouts a lot more than we do in America, which don't really need any signs)
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Reading this article reminded me of an instance where something pretty amazing happened one day. I live in Albany, NY, and one day I was driving home along Central Avenue, which is aptly named and is one of the busiest roads in the city, if not the busiest. It was around rush hour, there was heavy traffic, and for some reason, all of the traffic lights were out. Completely out, for a mile or two at least. But that wasn't the part that amazed me. What was amazing was that traffic was still flowing, people were people courteous and letting people turn on from side streets, and there was hardly even any holdup in traffic. Traffic moved right along and I was soon out of the area affected by the outage. I'm not saying that we shouldn't have traffic lights at all, but I think the people who are promoting this idea are not as dead-wrong as some might think. (Also, it's probably important to note that European cities use roundabouts a lot more than we do in America, which don't really need any signs)