Friday, August 13, 2010

Do Roads Without Traffic Lights Translate To Chaos?

A small town in Britain took out traffic lights and got a pleasant surprise-a smoother flow of traffic!


As Professor Alex Tabarrok
writes,

``The experiments are interesting in their own right but they are also very good illustrations of spontaneous order; how order is possible without orders."

Of course, for the mainstream, this is just another form of sacrilege.

1 comment:

dannybuntu said...

In New York and other high density traffic areas, most likely. In a small to medium scale suburb, probably not :)

Happy weekend!