Comment on Local news did an entire segment featuring a guy who's mad about having to drive more carefully.
Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 1 week ago
To be honest those gray small concrete blocks with funny useless poles in them are really a bad road UI design.
Not visible enough and too small to be effective anyway…
So while the complaints are stupid, they have a point: make those road blockers bigger and more visible. Maybe more signage as well…
They’re less ugly than a jersey barrier and do less damage to cars that can’t stay in their lane while still protecting cyclists.
But yeah, visibility is key. I wonder if they are still visible in ten years. That’s my only objection to things like raised crossings: once the paint wears off or in snow they become a lot less visible and no longer as effective. I hate that both as a driver and a cyclist
This is mostly a US problem though. Road designers in the US just don’t seem to actually understand how to implement these things in a sensible manner.
The way to do things like raised crossings is to make them out of a different type of road surface, moving over to brick pavers is common, so there’s always a visual indication.
Yeah we don’t spend money on road maintenance, only road creation
My sneaking suspicion is that they make things like these or medians almost invisible on purpose to piss people off and make the situation worse, so that they can then point to the idea of “safer road design” as a failure and go back to the old way.
Maybe, but more probably it’s just incompetence due to ignorance … It take time to learn how to do things properly and in the US it’s not like they have experience on that, don’t they?
And probably lack general regulations on how to do it properly, like they have in Germany on in the Netherlands …
diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days ago
it’s more UX than UI here, no?
0ops@piefed.zip 6 days ago
I guess you could say that the user interfaces with the concrete block via their shiny chrome rims on bald rubber band tires
Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 6 days ago
Yeah … No native speaker here … :)