From Left Field

A Novel Approach to Traffic

The cure for traffic chaos? Remove the signs, lines, lights.
By Mark Rice-Oxley :: Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor

I would love to experience this firsthand. The US is so pedestrian unfriendly that I think that this would either solve our problems or fail utterly. On the path that I walk, there are three street crossings and despite the very clear pedestrian crossing signs, a frightfully high number of people actually accelerate while approaching those zones.