To prepare for thousands of cars traversing a residential road daily, a small Utah city installed traffic-calming slabs to improve safety for walkers and bikers. It didn't go over well.
These “mountable islands” might be good in theory but it looks like the city did absolutely nothing to make them easily visible. I’ve seen similar things around my own city and its almost as if the traffic engineers want to cause vehicle damage and dangerous maneuvers as you often can’t see these obstacles until you’re about to crash into them.
These “mountable islands” might be good in theory but it looks like the city did absolutely nothing to make them easily visible. I’ve seen similar things around my own city and its almost as if the traffic engineers want to cause vehicle damage and dangerous maneuvers as you often can’t see these obstacles until you’re about to crash into them.
And looking at the placement of them in the article’s pictures, it doesn’t seem quite right to me. They look like they’d be easy to run into.