Goodbye traffic lights, hello road loveliness

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"Research has shown that these kinds of shared spaces automatically reduced traffic speed to under 20 mph - the threshold at which the chances of being severely injured in a road accident plummets. This highly counterintuitive approach - increasing risk decreases accidents is finding favour (albeit slowly and not without opposition) all over the world."

Listen again: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018xs8t

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Yes, I heard that, too. Excellent stuff.