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Default Everything we know about traffic-calming is wrong

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JNugent wrote:

The Chiswick section of M4 was designed and built to be
operated at no speed limit whatsoever - though it had the
national 70 limit imposed soon after opening.


You can't design a road for "no speed limit whatsoever". Britain's


GErman Autobahns seem to throw that out of the window. Sure you can't
design a road for "no speed whatsoever", but theres no need for a
limit on many roads. At least that's what the most populous country
in Euroep seems to think.


Most populous != most densely populated, of course. England does pretty well
in the densely populated stakes.

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Default Everything we know about traffic-calming is wrong

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You can't design a road for "no speed limit whatsoever". Britain's


GErman Autobahns seem to throw that out of the window. Sure you can't
design a road for "no speed whatsoever", but theres no need for a
limit on many roads. At least that's what the most populous country
in Euroep seems to think.


Most populous != most densely populated, of course. England does pretty well
in the densely populated stakes.


Whereas the whole of the UK does less well. Similarly, certain Länder in
Germany do quite well.

For example, Nordrhein-Westfalen had 519 people per square kilometre in
1992 (probably more now), which is quite a bit higher than England. And
Nordrhein-Westfalen is a fairly sizeable Land, even if it's not the size
of England.

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