Thread: Everything we know about traffic-calming is wrong
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Old June 23rd 04, 09:43 AM posted to uk.rec.cycling,uk.transport,uk.transport.london
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Default Everything we know about traffic-calming is wrong
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Probably depends on the location. Some roads have been made safer by
doing just that. Certianly the experience where roads have been
treated with lots of paint and signage has often been that drivers
simply speed up and the crash rate remains unchanged.

DfT research would appear to suggest otherwise.

A number of test villages covering 30, 40, 50 and 60 limits. A variety of
signage and paint changes. Every one resulted in lower mean and 85th
percentile speeds.

http://www.dft.gov.uk/stellent/group...504760-02.hcsp


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