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Can you imagine streets without traffic signs? Dreaming of streets liberated from rules and directives, European traffic planners already harvest the first good results – seven European cities already do away with traffic signs.
The project is being implemented by the European Union and the motto is: “Unsafe is Safe”. Drivers and pedestrians should interact in a free and humane way: friendly gestures, nods of the head and eye contact are the means of communication, trying to lever out the irritations resulting from exaggerated regulations. Hence, stop signs, direction signs and their friends are nowhere to be seen anymore – changing the looks of the cityscapes.
The new model envisions drivers and pedestrians blending into a variegated and peaceful traffic stream – according to the insights of traffic psychology.
Here you can see a roundabaout in the Netherlands, which has been designed in the new way.
Found at spiegel.de.
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I can’t imagine it works really. Some drivers don’t care, but it does not make streets really safer. Seriously, who believes it works?
Anna
I think its one thing to design a round about and another to take away all signs and rules. I am sure it will work, when people first get used to it. But I am also sure, that it will not lead to “friendly gestures” and peaceful driving. If you look at cities like Rome or Cairo, they seem to not having rules at all and it works, but it is nothing but loud and stressful. I would not want to change, to be onest.
BB