Shared Space Traffic Systems

Description

Dan Hill:

"Hans Monderman's "shared space" traffic system, designed and implemented in many places from the 1980s onwards, removes all signage and formal “rules" from intersections, instead relying on human interaction—people looking each other in the eyes and making shared decisions, in an network of interdependent trust. Cars, lorries, bikes and pedestrians come together in the same place and negotiate their way through together. Everything slows down, but nothing stops.

This is the safest way to design an intersection. Add traffic lights to this, and we get more accidents, not fewer." (http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2013/02/on-the-smart-city-a-call-for-smart-citizens-instead.html)