It’s ABOUT time.
For some Roundabouts.
In 1999, Pierre Vivant installed his traffic light tree in a roundabout in London town. How ironic to see this little ditty poking fun at the overwhelming use of traffic lights all over the world.
Vivant’s creativity brings me to my point: why don’t we see less traffic lights and more real trees? Traffic circles (aka Roundabouts) are a great way to green up in the city. They look pretty, they’re more sustainable and easier to maintain than pavement, and they are also pedestrian-friendly. Not to mention that they save electricity and slow traffic without constant stop-and-go. Sound ideal? Yeah, pretty much. Now there’s just one problem: American’s don’t like this because we didn’t create them and we don’t know how to use them because we don’t use them at all. We need to be more aggressive about planting roundabouts than installing lights everywhere.
Think if you had one of these babies at the corner nearest you. Cute, right?
nice! do the trafic lights lights change in unison or are they all in differnt fases?
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i have to tell you i struggled to read what you have to say
and gave up as it was too hard work because the font size yr using is soooo small that the white is filling in! it’s melting into the abyss of black!
and it was pot luck that i found this wee comment window as there is no boarder around it to indicate where it is – i can see the scroll bar – it’s blindingly bright!