[D66] 'Unsafe is safe'

Tue Jan 29 11:15:55 CET 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiMk2XIRSso
¿Cuál es el barrio más peligroso de México DF?
81.835 weergaven
904
169

MarginalMedia
Gepubliceerd op 14 apr. 2016
Me pedisteis que incluyese a México dentro de esta lista. "Los Lugares
Más Horribles del Mundo"

On 26-01-19 12:59, A.O. wrote:
> Zo leer je pas echt uitkijken...
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH6naRedhP8
> Mexico City Loop | Ana Puga
> 553.100 weergaven
> 9,9K
> Terry Barentsen
> Gepubliceerd op 27 jun. 2018
> While in CDMX Ana Puga takes me on a chill city loop.
> 
> 
> On 26-01-19 11:29, A.O. wrote:
>> (Eens, maak het verkeer zo gevaarlijk mogelijk. Wie wel eens in
>> Mexico-Stad auto heeft gereden weet dat je dan pas veilig bent omdat je
>> moet opletten...Lees het boek van Dieleman maar over zijn ervaringen:
>> https://www.scriptum.nl/boeken/maskers-machos-manantildea/)
>>
>> +++
>>
>> A Modest, Counterintuitive Example :
>> Red Light Removal
>>
>> The regulation of daily life is so ubiquitous and so embedded
>> in our routines and expectations as to pass virtually unnoticed.
>> Take the example of traffic lights at intersections. Invented in
>> the United States after World War I, the traffic light substi
>> tuted the judgment of the traffic engineer for the mutual give
>> and-take that had prevaUed historically between pedestrians,
>> carts, motor vehicles, and bicycles. Its purpose was to prevent
>> accidents by imposing an engineered scheme of coordination.
>> More than occasionally, the result has been the scene in Neu
>> brandenburg with which I opened the book: scores of people
>> waiting patiently for the light to change when it was perfectly
>> apparent there was no traffic whatever. They were suspending
>> their independent judgment out of habit, or perhaps out of a
>> civic fear of the ultimate consequences of exercising it against
>> the prevaUing electronic legal order.
>> What would happen if there were no electronic order at
>> the intersection, and motorists and pedestrians had to exer
>> cise their independent judgment ? Since 1 999, beginning in
>> the city of Drachten, the Netherlands, this supposition has
>> been put to the test with stunning results, leading to a wave of
>> "red light removal" schemes across Europe and in the United
>> States.4 Both the reasoning behind this small policy initiative
>> and its results are, I believe, diagnostic for other, more far
>> reaching efforts to craft institutions that enlarge the scope for
>> independent judgment and expand capacities.
>> Hans Moderman, the counterintuitive traffic engineer who
>> first suggested the removal of a red light in Drachten in 2003,
>> went on to promote the concept of"shared space," which took
>> hold quickly in Europe. He began with the observation that,
>> when an electrical faUure incapacitated traffic lights, the result
>> was improved flow rather than congestion. As an experiment,
>> he replaced the busiest traffic-light intersection in Drachten,
>> handling 22,000 cars a day, with a traffic circle, an extended
>> cycle path, and a pedestrian area. In the two years following
>> the removal of the traffic light, the number of accidents plum
>> meted to only two, compared with thirty-six crashes in the
>> four years prior. Traffic moves more briskly through the inter
>> section when all drivers know they must be alert and use their
>> common sense, while backups and the road rage associated
>> with them have virtually disappeared. Monderman likened it
>> to skaters in a crowded ice rink who manage successfully to
>> tailor their movements to those of the other skaters. He also
>> believed that an excess of signage led drivers to take their eyes
>> off the road, and actually contributed to making junctions less
>> safe.
>> Red light removal can, I believe, be seen as a modest training
>> exercise in responsible driving and civic courtesy. Monderman
>> was not against traffic lights in principle, he simply did not
>> find any in Drach ten that were truly useful in terms of safety,
>> improving traffic flow, and lessening pollution. The traffic
>> circle seems dangerous : and that is the point. He argued that
>> when "motorists are made more wary about how they drive,
>> they behave more carefully; and the statistics on "post-traffic
>> light" accidents bear him out. Having to share the road with
>> other users, and having no imperative coordination imposed
>> by traffic lights, the context virtually requires alertness - an
>> alertness abetted by the law, which, in the case of an accident
>> where blame is hard to determine, presumptively blames the
>> "strongest" (i.e., blames the car driver rather than the bicyclist,
>> and the bicyclist rather than the pedestrian.)
>> The shared space concept of traffic management relies on
>> the intelligence, good sense, and attentive observation of driv
>> ers, bicyclists, and pedestrians. At the same time, it arguably,
>> in its small way, actually expands the skills and capacity of
>> drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians to negotiate traffic without
>> being treated like automata by thickets of imperative signs
>> (G ermany alone has 648 valid traffic symbols, which accu
>> mulate as one approaches a town) and signals. Monderman
>> believed that the more numerous the prescriptions, the more
>> it impelled drivers to seek the maximum advantage within the
>> rules: speeding up between signals, beating the light, avoid
>> ing all unprescribed courtesies. Drivers had learned to run the
>> maze of prescriptions to their maximum advantage. Without
>> go ing overboard about its world-shaking significance, Moder
>> man's innovation does make a palpable contribution to the
>> gross human product.
>> The effect of what was a paradigm shift in traffic manage
>> ment was euphoria. Small towns in the Netherlands put up
>> one sign boasting that they were "Free of Traffic Signs" ( Ver
>> keersbordvrij), and a conference discussing the new philoso
>> phy proclaimed "Unsafe is safe."
>>
>>
>> --Two Cheers for for Anarchism
>> Six Easy Pieces
>> on Autonomy,
>> Dignity,
>> and Meaningful
>> Work and Play
>> JAMES C. SCOTT
>> Princeton University Press
>> Princeton & Oxford
>> _______________________________________________
>> D66 mailing list
>> D66 at tuxtown.net
>> http://www.tuxtown.net/mailman/listinfo/d66
>>
> _______________________________________________
> D66 mailing list
> D66 at tuxtown.net
> http://www.tuxtown.net/mailman/listinfo/d66
> 