Friday, December 23, 2016

How Sweden Has Redesigned Streets To Route Around Bad Human Behavior

If a car almost hits a pedestrian when the car is turning right on a red, whose fault is it? According to Matts-Åke Belin, Sweden's traffic safety strategist, the blame is on whoever designed the intersection.
"Why should we put the whole responsibility on the individual road user, when we know they will talk on their phones, they will do lots of things that we might not be happy about?" Belin told CityLab in an interview. "So let’s try to build a more human-friendly system instead."
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