Keep it simple?

[cement]

"Don't Hit the Car in Front of You": Stating the obvious reducing accidents in Arlington, VA

http://www.governing.com/blogs/view/gov-ridiculously-simple-sign-may-have-prevented-collissions-In-virginia.html

 

[Road Guy]

LOL

I like money.. we are surely headed to idiocracy status here in this Country..

 

[csb]

PVMS are supposed to tell you what to do. I like it.

 

[wilheldp_PE]

Just a matter of time before some "human rights group" makes them take down those signs because they are "insulting peoples' intelligence." Same thing happened in Louisville when the city put up "Warning: High Hydrogen Content" signs by all the local fountains to keep homeless people from bathing in them. It worked, but they had to take them down because they were insulting.

 

[Dleg]

"Warning: Stop Staring at This Sign and Keep Your Eyes on the Road!"

 

[Sapper PE LS]

I like the idea of simple. Has anybody read the book "Traffic"? There's a chapter in it that talks about this traffic engineer from somewhere in Europe who designed his streets with no signs, and kids play areas right next to the street. People were so confused about what they were driving through, they slowed down to a crawl and surprisingly, those towns never had accidents. Not saying I concur with that design philosophy, but it makes an interesting case study.

 

[Dleg]

Has anybody read the book "Traffic"?

No, but I saw the movie, and I must have missed the part that had anything to do with road design.

 

[Sapper PE LS]

I think the movie you are talking about is nothing like the book I'm talking about.