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December 18, 2006
Do traffic signs make you less safe?
A quick ego-based heads-up. My brief article on the idea that in some cases removing traffic signs can actually improve highway safety ran in the Boston Globe yesterday.
The article's titled "No Signs Ahead", and here's a link to it.
(Photo from jacco de boer/flickr)
Posted by Chris Spurgeon at December 18, 2006 07:13 AM
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After reading your very good Boston Globe article yesterday, Chris, I was motivated to actually go out and capture an image that I have been meaning to capture for a few years. It's an example of self-conflicting traffic instructions, at Foothill and Verdugo. Here's a link to the image:
http://people.artcenter.edu/doody/noturn.jpg
Happy solstice. -- Dave
Posted by: Dave Doody at December 21, 2006 01:36 PM