What Happens When Towns Eliminate Traffic Signals
What happens when you remove traffic control devices (stoplights, signs, etc.) and the laws that come with them?
Several European towns have experimented with this idea. While many critics predicted a massive increase in accidents, fatalities, and general chaos, something beautiful happened instead.
Last year, I came across this story about a German town called Bohmte which removed all their traffic control devices - signs, stoplights, etc. The number of accidents and fatalities dropped to zero according to their authorities.
From The Mind Unleashed
Women drivers must have also been banned if accidents dropped so much!
/ducks
It works great...if you don't have the average idiot American behind the wheel texting or screaming at their kids in the backseat.
Otherwise it can be a real issue, as are even lights that allow turn-left (or right for aussies) as long as it's clear cause many bicycle accidents as drivers disregard bicycles and expect them to stop.
I've dodged cars speeding 20-30mph through a light like that on my bicycle only missing their car by a foot or so.
Cagers (car drivers) should realistically just be lined up and sho-
I mean they should use public transportation instead of death machines :)