Where drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians are all equal.

[classic33]

All equal
"Imagine a street with no sidewalks, no crosswalks, no curbs, no lane markings--basically no real distinctions between pedestrians, cyclists, and drivers at all. At first glance, that might seem like an extraordinarily unsafe street. But the city of Chicago is betting on its success as it redesigns a four-block stretch of its uptown."

 

[Gravity Aided]

I'll let ya know how that one comes out.
http://www.thechainlink.org
Don't forget, Nov. 8 is Guy Fawkes Ride and Bonfire! (I'd go, and submit a report, but it is a couple hunnert miles.)

 

[classic33]

I'll let ya know how that one comes out.
http://www.thechainlink.org
Don't forget, Nov. 8 is Guy Fawkes Ride and Bonfire! (I'd go, and submit a report, but it is a couple hunnert miles.)

Whats a couple of hunnert miles? Or don't you fancy doing the write-up afterwards!

Guido Fawkes stayed in a pub near me, before moving onto London.

 

[ufkacbln]

Whats a couple of hunnert miles? Or don't you fancy doing the write-up afterwards!

Guido Fawkes stayed in a pub near me, before moving onto London.

I remember being fascinated as a kid by the ride from London to York by Dick Turpin

Then as I grew older I began to realise that if he had actually stopped at every pub on the Great North Road that claimed he had stopped he would have taken a couple of weeks and been too drunk to walk from the pub to his horse!

 

[classic33]

I remember being fascinated as a kid by the ride from London to York by Dick Turpin

Then as I grew older I began to realise that if he had actually stopped at every pub on the Great North Road that claimed he had stopped he would have taken a couple of weeks and been too drunk to walk from the pub to his horse!

At the time this one was a coaching inn.

 

[Brandane]

I remember being fascinated as a kid by the ride from London to York by Dick Turpin

Then as I grew older I began to realise that if he had actually stopped at every pub on the Great North Road that claimed he had stopped he would have taken a couple of weeks and been too drunk to walk from the pub to his horse!

A bit like a certain Rabbie Burns on his travels around Ayrshire, and Dumfries and Galloway. It appears he wrote poetry on every pub wall between here and Carlisle .

Anyhoo, this plan might work in Chicago, but I can't see it working in London or any other big city in the UK.. It's chaos when a set of traffic lights stops working! Can you imagine placing the Arc de Triomphe roundabout in London? The city would grind to a halt. British drivers are too dopey/dithering/selfish to work things out for themselves.

 

[Brandane]

It's already working in London... Exhibition Road.

I stand corrected . The drivers of London are clever/decisive/courteous. Having never been to Exhibition Road I haven't had the chance to experience this strange phenomenon.

 

[annedonnelly]

I think that was the idea here The lack of white lines at the road junctions were supposed to make everyone slow down, stop and prepare to give priority to others. It doesn't seem to work - vehicles on the slightly wider road (Durban St) decide they have priortity over everyone else. And it's a bit of a rat run for taxis heading to/from the supermarket so they tend to weave in and out of the chicanes.

 

[welsh dragon]

I thought they tried that somewhere before as an experiment, but I never heard what the results were. I can't remember where it was, or over how long a period it was, but it was a long time ago.

 

[John the Monkey]

I think that was the idea here The lack of white lines at the road junctions were supposed to make everyone slow down, stop and prepare to give priority to others. It doesn't seem to work - vehicles on the slightly wider road (Durban St) decide they have priortity over everyone else. And it's a bit of a rat run for taxis heading to/from the supermarket so they tend to weave in and out of the chicanes.

That would have been my guess as to the outcome.

Asserting your priority over a sociopath with a tonne of speeding metal at their disposal is never going to be a winner, is it? The drivers get used to the unfamiliar layout, and go back to bullying everything else out of the way, unless they are made to stop doing so.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Whats a couple of hunnert miles? Or don't you fancy doing the write-up afterwards!

Guido Fawkes stayed in a pub near me, before moving onto London.

200 miles is not so bad, if I had the time, either that, or take the train. But I really don't fancy going all that far on an English 3 speed in a tweed suit. I have a tweed coat, but I got it from Goodwill with the original tags on it, it fits me like a bespoke suit, and it cost me 3.50. If I go to some bonfire in it, it would smell like smoke. Add that to the fact that once I get to the Elephant and Castle, I probably won't get any farther.