Sculptor Steven Woodward's latest art project is a set of traffic signs, made from the same material as normal signs, but with pictures designed to slow traffic. Some feature pictures of people, others are based on cave art or animals, like the one pictured here. They were installed on Hamline and Thomas Avenue in St. Paul, Minnesota. Did they slow traffic?
However, traffic engineers did not take into account that the state fair was in full swing during the testing period. The signs will soon be moved to George Street for another go. Link -Thanks, panodk!
"As I understand it, there was no change in traffic vehicular speeds whatsoever," he said.
Traffic on Hamline didn't change. With and without the signs, speeds were 33 miles per hour northbound and 34 miles per hour southbound. It was a similar story on Thomas Avenue. Eastbound speeds averaged 32 miles per hour with and without the signs. The westbound traffic slowed only slightly when the art signs were posted from 34 to 33 miles per hour.
However, traffic engineers did not take into account that the state fair was in full swing during the testing period. The signs will soon be moved to George Street for another go. Link -Thanks, panodk!
an example... I-394 has a high occupancy lane east bound towards minneapolis. A sane person would assume as you get closer to the center of the metropolitan area, you would have more lanes as that would be where you would have greater concentration of traffic. Not in Minnesota. here the high occupancy lane just ends about 4 miles from downtown minneapolis, meaning people whizz by everyone else, and then are forced to merge in to a now reduced number of lanes, which creates a huge cluster%*&%. wasn't a one time mistake either... they have similar contrictions all over the place. a 5 year old could engineer traffic flow better than these idiots.