one.point.zero - Colin O'Brien's weblog
January 16 2008
Road Rage
November 11 2007
I’d never heard of car vaulting before but I’ve certainly felt like engaging in it many a time.
November 05 2007
After clocks are turned back to end daylight saving time, pedestrians walking during the evening rush hour are nearly three times more likely to be struck and killed by cars than before the time change.
September 14 2007
Jan Gehl on how to build a place for people, not for cars.
July 27 2007
Kensington high-street in London was stripped of guard rails, white lines and signposts, and the number of accidents dropped by 44% as people became more aware of each other’s presence.
June 03 2007
Cellphone use increases the accident risk of pedestrians too.
March 06 2007
Red vs Green
October 23 2006
Couldn't have said it better“If you plan a city for cars and traffic you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places.”
September 09 2006
Momus on urban auto culture“Cars are the closest thing we have in our society to predators, capable of picking off the weak; they're malevolent steel sharks or pumas, cruising our cities, hogging the head of the food chain.”