[ale] [OT] Cars and licensing... (Was: Re: Well, this does nothing for the reputation of Linux)

[Jim Kinney]

I'm a growing fan of "turnabouts" as a replacement for traffic lights. It
takes some getting used to but it's (nearly) zero maintenance. And the
center can be a nice planting with some beefy steel crash bars.


On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Jim Lynch <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com>wrote:

> On 07/22/2013 02:01 PM, Brian MacLeod wrote:
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>> On 7/22/13 1:33 PM, Sparr wrote:
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>>> I'm reading this from the point of view of a person approaching a
>>> flashing red light. How am I to know whether cross traffic has
>>> flashing red or flashing yellow?
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>>
>>  This is an interesting study on the topic.  Their solution is to have
> most intersections red/red except in the case of a very busy roadway
> intersecting a very lightly traveled roadway.
>
> http://transportation.ce.**gatech.edu/malfunction<http://transportation.ce.gatech.edu/malfunction>
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