Traffic Calming Around the World

Don’t miss Jenna Ashley Robinson’s Regional Brief on the latest addlepated fad to strike city planners who want to do something about traffic congestion but are determined not to build more roads or add more lanes to existing roads: traffic calming.

“Traffic calming” is a phrase I’ve already added to my occasional euphemism watch ? after all, here is what 100 percent “calm” traffic looks like:

Traffic calming is, I take it, an idea being tried the world over. I did a quick search, and here are a few examples I’ve found of traffic calming across the world:

Granted, those are a bit different from what model traffic calming is supposed to look like.