{"id":557,"date":"2010-12-03T19:41:42","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T19:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=557"},"modified":"2010-12-03T19:41:42","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T19:41:42","slug":"tao-of-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=557","title":{"rendered":"‘Tao of Traffic’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Oct. 23 edition of Science Magazine<\/strong><\/em> noted that Germany is experimenting with a new type of traffic light system. \u00a0 Sensors are placed in approaches to traffic lights (from both sides). \u00a0 The light then responds, not automatically like they normally do, but rather to the incoming and outgoing traffic flows. \u00a0 In a test of the system in Dresden, it was estimated waiting in traffic was reduced by 9%. \u00a0 \u00a0 Just the next phase in keeping traffic going, and going… faster, and faster… Meanwhile, in America 33,000 people were killed on the roads last year. \u00a0 (That’s like half an airliner going down, every day.) \u00a0 And even more people are maimed each year on the road. \u00a0 For instance, I was talking to a man in Atlanta recently whose son was paralyzed for life from a car accident on a highway in New Mexico… \u00a0 Common sense would say, instead of continuing to speed things up out there on the roads, maybe we should be (Are you ready for this?) slowing<\/em> things down. \u00a0 In the middle part of last century, the speed limit on the highways was 40 mph. \u00a0 The speed limit in the residential areas was 25 mph. \u00a0 At those speeds, a whole<\/em> \u00a0 lot less people were getting killed, and a whole<\/em> \u00a0 lot less people were being maimed. \u00a0 Call me “retro,” but wouldn’t we be much better off with a slower ‘Tao of Traffic’? \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 I just heard a country song about the “old days.” \u00a0 A time when if someone said they were “down with that,” it meant they had the flu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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