Comments on: ‘Shared Space’ Comes to Montgomery, Alabama http://www.howwedrive.com/2009/01/29/shared-space-comes-to-montgomery-alabama/ Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:05:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Bossi http://www.howwedrive.com/2009/01/29/shared-space-comes-to-montgomery-alabama/#comment-5715 Bossi Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:45:04 +0000 http://www.howwedrive.com/?p=555#comment-5715 I'd likewise consider myself a "reformed" traffic engineer, and I couldn't agree more that we could use an "IRTE" to contrast ITE. There are a fair share of us out there to butt heads with the more traditional folk, but it often seems that we're throughly outnumbered. Some of the things that come through our newsletters & listservs make me cringe: like the "perfect" road being completely straight, several lanes in each direction, and 100' clear zones. Similarly, I'm sure I make others cringe with my detest of signs & enforcement and belief that anything can be fixed by design... The greatest barrier holding back the reformed folk is liability. Did you get any info from Montgomery as to how they would be able to defend themselves from lawsuits? My opinion of warning signs is that they are only a cheap way of passing the buck on liability... yet I can't deny that it's an effective method of saving agencies $$$ in litigation. So if they were all removed, how has the city prepared themselves to defend against any lawsuits that arise? I’d likewise consider myself a “reformed” traffic engineer, and I couldn’t agree more that we could use an “IRTE” to contrast ITE. There are a fair share of us out there to butt heads with the more traditional folk, but it often seems that we’re throughly outnumbered. Some of the things that come through our newsletters & listservs make me cringe: like the “perfect” road being completely straight, several lanes in each direction, and 100′ clear zones. Similarly, I’m sure I make others cringe with my detest of signs & enforcement and belief that anything can be fixed by design…

The greatest barrier holding back the reformed folk is liability. Did you get any info from Montgomery as to how they would be able to defend themselves from lawsuits? My opinion of warning signs is that they are only a cheap way of passing the buck on liability… yet I can’t deny that it’s an effective method of saving agencies $$$ in litigation. So if they were all removed, how has the city prepared themselves to defend against any lawsuits that arise?

]]> By: Botswana Meat Commission FC http://www.howwedrive.com/2009/01/29/shared-space-comes-to-montgomery-alabama/#comment-5711 Botswana Meat Commission FC Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:45:15 +0000 http://www.howwedrive.com/?p=555#comment-5711 Haha. Hummer FAIL. There's just no traffic engineer anywhere who can make the world safe for a shit-faced Hummer driver. Haha. Hummer FAIL.

There’s just no traffic engineer anywhere who can make the world safe for a shit-faced Hummer driver.

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