Via Boing-boing, a man who decided to roll his own ... Man Jailed For Creating Crosswalk, Vows More
"MUNCIE, Ind. -- Whitney Stump didn't like watching drivers ignore the stop signs at the intersection outside his home, so he asked the city to paint crosswalks there.
When the city said no, he made one himself. And the city wasn't appreciative."
China to eradicate queue-jumping.
Apparently China has been colonised by the English.
Two new movies/simulations of the co-evolution of downtown Minneapolis and its skyways system have been postedhere
These are large movies (132 and 137 MB), so be forewarned.
These are based on research done by Michael Corbett as part of his MS classwork and Feng Xie as part of his PhD. The research paper underlying this can be found:
Evolution of the Second-Story City: Modeling the Growth of the Minneapolis
Skyway Network to be presented at the upcoming World Conference on Transport Research in Berkeley.
From today's Pioneer Press ... the new threat to our civilization Sidewalk rage flares in asphalt jungles
I suppose there is research to be had on inter-modal rage (bike on ped, truck on motorcycle, scooter on bus, etc.)
I was going to write about this, but someone beat me to it: London Underground Tube Diary - Going Underground's Blog. There is a new ad campaign from Flora "Could you walk it quicker?" which suggests people should walk between locations that are close together for their heart. Of course, it would also relieve transit congestion, if taken up, as many stations are really quite close, especially after you consider the underground access costs, the closeness is shown on the maps at Shortwalk.blog. It points out the great distortions caused by the standard tube map based on the design by Harry Beck, which makes some close things seem far and some far things seem close.