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Archive for May 10th, 2010

Holy Failure to Yield!

Geez, it seems drivers won’t even stop to let the Lord Jesus Christ cross the street.

(thanks David)

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Posted on Monday, May 10th, 2010 at 1:59 pm by: Tom Vanderbilt
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14 MPH

In Orlando recently, out at a resort complex in the Disney-sphere, I saw a sign that caused me to do a bit of a double-take: 14 MPH.

I couldn’t recall ever having seen one of these before, though as the photo above — not the sign I saw — indicates, it’s not the only one.

Anyone know the origins of this peculiar sign? The 14 MPH seems like a weird translation from KPH, or is it intended to gain attention by sheer novelty? Does 14 represent some benchmark of safety above and beyond 15?

Also strange is that the sign was a rather normal suburban office-park/hotel complex like environment, with fairly wide, smooth streets — certainly not the kind that seemingly beg for a speed that’s actually hard to consistently track on a speedometer. In other words, if the powers that be wanted people going that speed, they’re going to need more than just that sign, however eye-catching. Needless to say, the taxi I was in was going more than that.

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Posted on Monday, May 10th, 2010 at 12:12 pm by: Tom Vanderbilt
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Illegal Trafficking in Arizona

You see, Arizona really is concerned about privacy issues.

Citing the Constitution, that’s a nice touch — how much you wanna bet the biggest opponents of red light cameras are the biggest supporters of Arizona’s unconstitutional immigration law?

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Posted on Monday, May 10th, 2010 at 10:55 am by: Tom Vanderbilt
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Traffic Tom Vanderbilt

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.

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