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Sep 7, 2004
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." --Friedrich Nietzsche
Second Generation Traffic
Get rid of stop signs and red lights and let cars, bikes and people mingle together. That's what a new school of traffic design says, citing many examples in the developing countries that work amazingly well. For the past 50 years, the American approach to traffic safety has been dominated by the "triple E" paradigm: engineering, enforcement and education. Designer Ben Hamilton adds, "The history of traffic engineering is the effort to rationalize what appeared to be chaos. Today, we have a better understanding that chaos can be productive." The absence of traffic controls means that people are out for themselves; the trick is, they have to look out for everyone else as well. Second-generation traffic design is a curious mix of selfishness and altruism, of order amid chaos.
BE THE CHANGE
Identify a chaotic situation in your life, and look at it from another view.
