German town abolishes traffic lights and codes. Accidents are now almost non-existent!
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Mr. Somebody
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Easy to do when you have a population of 45k and people everywhere riding bikes. 
Makes sense though to an extent. Less people trying to rush through a yellow before it turns and just missing it. Much more reliance on whats going on around you, rather than just hoping everyone else is following the rules too.
Wouldn't happen over here...but dope nonetheless
Wouldn't happen over here...but dope nonetheless
Majestyx
Duck Season
this could work in some places. but not major cities... like LA. these mufukkas here dont know how to drive and its way too many damn cars. i just saw a lady crossing at a crosswalk get clipped. 
It makes sense for that town given that the size of population, and amount of cars on the road is equivalent to your average shopping mall parking lot here in the states.
this could work in some places. but not major cities... like LA. these mufukkas here dont know how to drive and its way too many damn cars. i just saw a lady crossing at a crosswalk get clipped.
Traffic signal warrants
The examples and perspective in this article deal primarily with the United States and do not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please improve this article and discuss the issue on the talk page. (December 2010)
Traffic signals have strengths and weaknesses that must be considered when deciding whether to install them. Signaled intersections can reduce delay for side road traffic and reduce the occurrence of collisions by turning traffic and cross traffic. But they may also cause delay for traffic on the main road, and often increase rear-end collisions by up to 50%.[39] Since right-angled and turn-against-traffic collisions are more likely to result in injuries, this is often an acceptable trade-off.
United States MUTCD
Criteria have been developed to help ensure that new signals are installed only where they will do more good than harm. In the United States these criteria are called warrants, and are found in the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD), the Federal regulation covering the use of signs, pavement markings, traffic signals, and similar devices.
In the US MUTCD, there are nine warrants for traffic signals:[40]
Between 1979 and 1988, the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania removed 199 signals that did not meet any of the warrants. On average, the intersections had 24% fewer crashes after the unwarranted signals were removed.[39]
The examples and perspective in this article deal primarily with the United States and do not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please improve this article and discuss the issue on the talk page. (December 2010)
Traffic signals have strengths and weaknesses that must be considered when deciding whether to install them. Signaled intersections can reduce delay for side road traffic and reduce the occurrence of collisions by turning traffic and cross traffic. But they may also cause delay for traffic on the main road, and often increase rear-end collisions by up to 50%.[39] Since right-angled and turn-against-traffic collisions are more likely to result in injuries, this is often an acceptable trade-off.
United States MUTCD
Criteria have been developed to help ensure that new signals are installed only where they will do more good than harm. In the United States these criteria are called warrants, and are found in the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD), the Federal regulation covering the use of signs, pavement markings, traffic signals, and similar devices.
In the US MUTCD, there are nine warrants for traffic signals:[40]
- Eight-Hour Vehicular Volume. Traffic volume must exceed prescribed minima for eight hours of an average day (usually a weekday).
- Four-Hour Vehicular Volume. Traffic volume must exceed prescribed minima for four hours of an average day.
- Peak Hour Volume or Delay. This is applied only in unusual cases, such as office parks, industrial complexes, or park and ride lots that attract or discharge large numbers of vehicles in a short time, and, for a minimum of one hour of an average day. The side road traffic suffers undue delay when entering or crossing the major street.
- Pedestrian Volume, if the traffic volume on a major street is so heavy that pedestrians experience excessive delay in attempting to cross it
- School Crossing, if the traffic density at school crossing times exceeds one per minute which is considered to provide too few gaps in the traffic for children to safely cross the street
- Coordinated Signal System, for places where adjacent traffic control signals do not keep traffic grouped together efficiently.
- Crash Experience. The volumes in the eight- and four-hour warrants may be reduced if five or more right-angle and cross traffic turn collisions have happened at the intersection in a twelve-month period.
- Roadway Network. Installing a traffic control signal at some intersections might be justified to encourage concentration and organization of traffic flow on a roadway network.
- Intersection Near a Grade Crossing. A traffic control signal is often justified at an intersection near a railroad crossing, in order to provide a preemption sequence to allow traffic queued up on the tracks an opportunity to clear the tracks before the train arrives.
Between 1979 and 1988, the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania removed 199 signals that did not meet any of the warrants. On average, the intersections had 24% fewer crashes after the unwarranted signals were removed.[39]
The OP didnt make a comment...
I would stop just short of saying that... but yea if the takeaway is that this is a great blanket opportunity to shrink govt dude mite not be an idiot, but hes damn close.
NYC would be awash in flames and riots.
Jhoon
Spontaneous Mishaps and Hijinks
why is there an instinct to apply it to a large city? Lets try it in small cities and then expand. But the conclusion drawn by the op is an idiot