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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Gautami><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Gautami'>Hello to all.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Gautami><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Gautami'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Gautami><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Gautami'>Here is a neat article about an innovative way of dealing
with traffic that I think is a beautiful metaphor for the practice of open
space (OST, opening space, being in open space…). <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Gautami><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Gautami'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Gautami><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Gautami'>In Holland and Denmark, some traffic engineers decided to
do away with all traffic controls (these are extraordinarily courageous traffic
engineers you can be sure) at some very hazardous intersections and
streets—no traffic lights, no traffic signs, lines, sidewalks,
barriers or any other external controls. Vehicles and pedestrians were
left to figure it out for themselves. The result—no more accidents
in intersections that previously had regular accidents and yearly fatalities. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Gautami><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Gautami'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Gautami><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Gautami'>Here are a few excerpts from the article, a link to the
article, and a word document with a readable version of the article.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Gautami><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Gautami'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Gautami><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Gautami'>Cheerio,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Gautami><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Gautami'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Gautami><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Gautami'>Kathryn Thomson<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Gautami><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Gautami'>Proteus Communications<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><font size=3
face=Gautami><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Gautami'>Bowen Island</span></font></st1:City><font
face=Gautami><span style='font-family:Gautami'>, <st1:State w:st="on">BC</st1:State></span></font></st1:place><font
face=Gautami><span style='font-family:Gautami'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span lang=EN
style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-style:italic'>Someday,
after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energies
of love. <o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span lang=EN
style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-style:italic'>And then,
for the second time in the history of the world, humanity will discover fire.”
</span></font></i><i><font face=Gautami><span style='font-family:Gautami;
font-style:italic'><o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in'><font size=2
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Teilhard
de Chardin<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in'><font size=2
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in'><font size=2
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=3 face=Gautami><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Gautami;font-style:italic'> * * * * * <o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=3 face=Gautami><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Gautami;font-style:italic'>One of the characteristics of a shared
environment is that it appears chaotic, it appears very complex, and it demands
a strong level of having your wits about you,</span></font></i><font
face=Gautami><span style='font-family:Gautami'> says U.K. traffic and urban
design consultant <a href="http://www.hamilton-baillie.co.uk" target=new>Ben
Hamilton-Baillie,</a> speaking from his home in Bristol. <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>The history of traffic engineering is the effort to
rationalize what appeared to be chaos, </span></i>he says<i><span
style='font-style:italic'>. Today, we have a better understanding <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>that chaos can be productive</span></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Gautami><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Gautami'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Gautami><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Gautami'> * * * * <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Gautami><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Gautami'>Reversing decades of conventional wisdom on traffic
engineering, Hamilton-Baillie argues that the key to improving both safety and
vehicular capacity is to remove traffic lights and other controls, such as stop
signs and the white and yellow lines dividing streets into lanes. Without any
clear right-of-way, he says, <b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:
italic'>motorists are forced to slow down to safer speeds, make eye contact
with pedestrians, cyclists and other drivers, and decide among themselves when
it is safe to proceed.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><i><font size=3 face=Gautami><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Gautami;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Gautami><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Gautami'> * * * *<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Gautami><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Gautami'>Rejecting the idea of separating people from vehicular
traffic, it's a concept that privileges multiplicity over homogeneity, disorder
over order, and intrigue over certainty. <b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;
font-style:italic'>In practice, it's about dismantling barriers</span></i></b>:
between the road and the sidewalk, between cars, pedestrians and cyclists and,
most controversially, between moving vehicles and children at play.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Gautami><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Gautami'>The article can be found at: <a
href="http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/000765.html"
title="http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/000765.html">http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/000765.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Gautami><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Gautami'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Gautami><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Gautami'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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