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Pastel Highways

“In an age when highway designers seriously considered paving the lanes of limited-access highways in pastel colors so that women drivers might negotiate them without collision—according to Carl Stelling in ‘Designing for the Ladies,’ a 1958 article on the challenges women faced on divided highways, ‘an extra, slow-speed, truckless lane would be provided for women who become nervous at high speeds’ — imagining the design of intersections of twelve-lane highways for women drivers taxed male imagination.”

That’s from John Stilgoe’s quixotic but fascinating Train Time.

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How We Drive is the companion blog to Tom Vanderbilt’s New York Times bestselling book, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us), published by Alfred A. Knopf in the U.S. and Canada, Penguin in the U.K, and in languages other than English by a number of other fine publishers worldwide.

Please send tips, news, research papers, links, photos (bad road signs, outrageous bumper stickers, spectacularly awful acts of driving or parking or anything traffic-related), or ideas for my Slate.com Transport column to me at: info@howwedrive.com.

For publicity inquiries, please contact Kate Runde at Vintage: krunde@randomhouse.com.

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