I came across this in the Nudge Blog that Rickard Thaler and Cass Sunstein write, building on their book Nudge which you will probably enjoy if you like books along the lines on Gladwell or Freakonomics.  It shows how the City of Gainesville, FL is using signage to share feedback on drivers behavior in the likelihood or yielding for pedestrians in the crosswalk.  It provides a nice reminder...

  Nice recent write up by Tom Vanderbilt, author of the book Traffic, in Slate magazine on designing a better stop sign.  It included this link to a great parody video on the development of a new stop sign.  It was not that long ago that stop signs were yellow so maybe we have made some progress.  He also references Gary Lauder’s TED talk which we mentioned previously on this...

FRIDAY FRIDAY FRIDAY! That’s right folks. Friday. If you’ve been reading my blog posts this year about bike commuting to work, and have been thinking “gosh, that guy sure is cool for riding 16 miles to work; I’ve got to try it sometime,” well, this Friday is your day. Or if you’ve been reading and thinking “that jerk sure must be full of himself to write about his bike riding so much,”...