Experiment Town in England turns off traffic lights surprising results

Experiment Town in England turns off traffic lights surprising results fit roads fit for people
Portishead lights-off trial which began on 14.9.09 and went permanent after journey times fell by over half with no loss of pedestrian safety
الإنسان بطبيعته كائن إعتيادي فإذا ما عودته على تصرف معين أو سلوك محدد فسوف يظل يسلك نفس التصرف ما لم يتغير شئ في وعيه ويجعله يغير ذاك السلوك ،فنحن مثلا نعلم أطفالنا كيف يقابلون الضيوف وكيف يأكلون وكيف يتصرفون بلياقة ولباقة فيلتصق ذلك السلوك بهم ويتطبعون به في حياتهم ،هذا على مستوى الفرد أما على مستوى المجتمع فبإمكانك أن تعود مجتمعا على احترام تقليد معين أو سلوك تصرف معين وهو ما يدرس في الجامعات تحت اسم علم الإجتماع وحتى في مجال إدارة الأعمال هناك ما يسمى بثقافة الشركة وهي مجموعة التصرفات التي تعود عليها العاملون لتادية عملياتهم اليومية ولدينا اليوم نموذجا لمجتمع تعود على احترام اشارت المرور وعدم التصرف بأنانية وعشوائية ،فقد قامت احدى المدن الإنكليزية بإطفاء اشارات المرور في ساعات معينة في اليوم ففوجئو بإختفاء الزحام المروري ،فلنشاهد معا هذه التجربة الرائعة :

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[hotspanna]

I live in Portishead and experienced this. Let me tell you, it was a brilliant success. We all quickly got into this empathy mode and it made me feel good for the whole day! So rather than starting the day feeling grumpy after sitting in a jam for 15 minutes or so, just to get through about quarter of a mile of traffic light grid lock, I would get through it in about a minute or less and also get the feel good factor of letting several other drivers pass through before me! Brilliant! :-)

[hotspanna]

They have since replaced the scheme with a set of mini roundabouts (traffic circles). Not sure they really needed to do this. I miss the empathy effect I used to get without lights or roundabouts. I would say it is slightly slower now with the roundabouts!

Empathy works! Every time I get stuck at traffic lights or grid locked roundabouts I think back with affection to that wonderful time where the lights were removed in Portishead and think why can't they do that at this junction I am at now!

[cyphered]

@boricuamm707

As for the stop lights - first were in London.

[cyphered]

@boricuamm707 I think you just have proven his point.

First laptop? Designed by a british guy.

Internet? First packet transmission experiments done in UK.

First mass car manufacturers were french.

First telephone? Alexander Bell - born in Scotland.

Electricity? Well that's tough one, because it's kind of hard to tell who "discovered" electricity. Could be englishman William Gilbert. Or Isaac Newton, also english. Or Italian Alessandro Volta?

And you say we'd be living in a wooden shed. Clever.

[egill12]

Well, there aren't any traffic lights in my town, so making an experiment when the data is already there is utterly useless.

[boricuamm707]

@SixDaysSE Was that really necessary? And do you have any statistics to back that?

Guess what.. you used a laptop, internet, and website that Americans invented. Your car, phone, electricity, nearly every modern thing you use was invented here. Even the stoplights!

So tell me Swedish guy, what has your country made that is used in my daily life? Besides maybe swiss knives?

Face it, if it weren't for the US you'd be living in a fucking wooden shed drinking mud water so you should stfu.

[BrommaHerman]

2.43 Is that Harry Potter?

[SixDaysSE]

@boricuamm707 Well. Americans consists of a higher percentage of idiots with little or none education compared to people in the developed EU countries. Might explain it :P

[LegendLength]

@WeAreChangePortugal

Exactly. It's easy to take away lights at a small, single lane intersection. Try taking them away from larger places and get you results like vietnam and india.

There are plenty of bad side-effects. In particular people need to keep very close to the car in front otherwise they open a gap and have to wait. People need to be much more aware every second they drive, waiting for a person or a car to jump out.