top | item 828216 DIY Traffic Calming 3 points| onreact-com | 16 years ago |wormworks.com | reply 4 comments order hn newest [+] [-] tjic|16 years ago|reply "Traffic Calming" strikes me as a bug, not a feature.I can do "phone calming" but disconnecting a phone for a few hours each day.I can do "mail calming" by threatening the postal delivery guy.I can do "mall calming" by super glueing the locks in the doors.Roads are engineered to get people from point A to point B while minimizing wasted time.Traffic calming is aimed at undoing that engineering.Boo. [+] [-] pohl|16 years ago|reply Residential streets are not designed for throughput. You make city-planning sound one-dimensional.Maybe you don't have children. load replies (1) [+] [-] onreact-com|16 years ago|reply Please DO NOT REMOVE my URLs.This is not the same story as changed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=827719How can you cripple a popular submission like that? This amounts to censorship.
[+] [-] tjic|16 years ago|reply "Traffic Calming" strikes me as a bug, not a feature.I can do "phone calming" but disconnecting a phone for a few hours each day.I can do "mail calming" by threatening the postal delivery guy.I can do "mall calming" by super glueing the locks in the doors.Roads are engineered to get people from point A to point B while minimizing wasted time.Traffic calming is aimed at undoing that engineering.Boo. [+] [-] pohl|16 years ago|reply Residential streets are not designed for throughput. You make city-planning sound one-dimensional.Maybe you don't have children. load replies (1)
[+] [-] pohl|16 years ago|reply Residential streets are not designed for throughput. You make city-planning sound one-dimensional.Maybe you don't have children. load replies (1)
[+] [-] onreact-com|16 years ago|reply Please DO NOT REMOVE my URLs.This is not the same story as changed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=827719How can you cripple a popular submission like that? This amounts to censorship.
[+] [-] tjic|16 years ago|reply
I can do "phone calming" but disconnecting a phone for a few hours each day.
I can do "mail calming" by threatening the postal delivery guy.
I can do "mall calming" by super glueing the locks in the doors.
Roads are engineered to get people from point A to point B while minimizing wasted time.
Traffic calming is aimed at undoing that engineering.
Boo.
[+] [-] pohl|16 years ago|reply
Maybe you don't have children.
[+] [-] onreact-com|16 years ago|reply
This is not the same story as changed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=827719
How can you cripple a popular submission like that? This amounts to censorship.