Safer Roads - No Markings, No Signals.

[KmH]

Late Dutch engineer Hans

Monderman’s principle is that freedom to assess risk for ourselves is what makes us safer. Rules, controls, signs, traffic lights all reduce our awareness of our surroundings and thus our sense of danger . . .
. . . Nor is it just accidents that are at issue. Last October the Yorkshire town of Beverley suffered a failure of 42 traffic lights and was amazed when traffic moved more smoothly.

The removal of road markings is to be celebrated. We are safer without them | Simon Jenkins

 

[snowbear]

Maybe, but around here, plenty of people will still drive like @$$#oles.

 

[weepete]

they did it in the town I work in

Traffic lights on the way back to shared space junction at Kirkintilloch?