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- Henri Lefebvre, The Right to the City — In brief, the right to the city is the right to the production of a city. The labor of a worker is the source of most of the value of a commodity that is expropriated by the owner. The worker, therefore, has a right to benefit from that value denied to them. In the same way, the urban citizen produces and reproduces the city through their own daily actions. However, the the city is expropriated from the urbanite by the rich and the state. The right to the city is therefore the right to appropriate the city by and for those who make and remake it.
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I'm all for wanting to slow down vehicles, but confusing drivers with optical illusions isn't the way.
For safety, infrastructure needs to be consistent and universally applied.
Add an actual speed bump to every crossing if you want to slow vehicles down.
@Showroom7561 @poVoq Speed bumps are becomming less effective due to the proliferation of off-road spec SUVs and Trucks as the family driver.
I used to live right opposite one and regularly saw these vehicles barrel over it at 3x the speed limit without the slightest hesitation.
@Showroom7561 @poVoq This kind of stuff is a great option to force compliance.
In Japan I saw they put grids of lights down on the ground at road works. The lights move towards the driver in waves creating illusion of them moving much faster which cause them to ease back in accelerator. Genius!
@milesmcbain @Showroom7561 @poVoq
Locals get used to whatever they encounter regularly. I know which humps are rough & which I can cruise over on my regular route.
Also, distracting drivers as they approach a pedestrian crossing is a really bad idea. This optical illusion will distract drivers from checking for approaching pedestrians.
That sounds like an inevitable future, if we keep allowing these monster trucks on the road. The areas where we have speed bumps around here seem to be effective (from what I observe), but then it's the people illegally parking in the bike lanes that end up being the real hazard.
Can we just remove cars already?