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What will be the future of urban roads?
United Kingdom Architecture News - Oct 13, 2015 - 22:33 3207 views
Is is safer to share? no traffic signals, no curbs, no rules. Surprisingly, this does not lead to road rage and chaos, but to a dramatic drop in road accidents. (image via cnn.com)
The future of urban roads may be one where motorists, pedestrians and cyclists act as one. Spaces where these usually segregated members of the population live - or move - by the same rules. Most importantly, these rules would be social, not formal, to befit the increasingly popular trend of 'shared space'.
"Shared space breaks the principle of segregation," says Ben Hamilton-Baillie, a street designer who coined the term with the late Dutch traffic engineer Hans Monderman and brought these spaces to the U.K., which now hosts more than any other country......Continue Reading
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