Ardonas Gilbert, 26, of Chester, Pennsylvania, has been charged by Delaware State Police with two counts of assault and a single count of being drunk on a highway. The charges stem from Gilbert’s naked jaunt along Interstate 95.
“Red light running is an issue of growing concern on our roadways,” said Greg Seiter, spokesman for AAA, in a news release. “And the increased traffic we expect to see around busy shopping malls this holiday season, we believe it’s important to help motorists understand just how dangerous the act of running a red light really can be.
Two safety experts ticketed for speeding in Ann Arbor this year are urging a judge to dismiss the citations, arguing that the city’s speed limits are unsafe and illegal under state law. They did not argue that a statute allows a city to supersede state law in setting limits. But they did assert that “the only logical method for determining a safe speed limit on an urban roadway … under the jurisdiction of a local authority like the city of Ann Arbor is to allow that local authority to make individualized determinations based on the recommendations of its traffic engineers.”
The story behind one city’s decision to put a (well-intentioned but annoying) traffic-calming stop-sign where there is no intersection to the ire of nearby residents. The reporter notes that while they watched, unsurprisingly, not a single car came to a full stop at the stop sign.
A Northampton County, Virginia resident decided to lower the speed limit outside his home by 20 MPH, and for more than six months police went along with it. Because Granville Hogg was upset at the legal 55 MPH pace on Townville Drive near Cherrystone campground, the elderly farmer decided to post his own authentic-looking 35 MPH speed limit signs nearly one year ago.
Today in 1923, Garrett Morgan patents his version of the traffic signal. Morgan’s signal, which more closely resembled the signals seen at train crossings, was not the first traffic light. His wasn’t even the first patent issued for a traffic light. But it was the signal that eventually attracted the attention of General Electric, which bought the rights from Morgan for $40,000.
Hype or high performance? There’s probably a little of both when it comes to inflating your tires with nitrogen. The practice has attracted a lot of attention in the last few years as a way to maintain constant tire pressure, save gas and extend tire life. But does it work? This article seems to indicate yes, though it may have a slight pro-Nitrogen bias.
Inflated reputation? Nitrogen filling more tires, but its edge is debated
Designed to slow passing traffic and discourage drivers from cutting through this residential neighborhood, the recently unveiled traffic circle at the intersection of Melinda Drive and Toddsbury Road has been roundly criticized by homeowners who say they haven’t seen the promised improvement in road conditions. “This is just not working like it’s supposed to work,” one resident said.
Mandy Eduque, Automobile Association Philippines director, likes to quote an Australian traffic consultant of a public works project who made this stunning observation: For Filipino drivers, traffic lights are merely “a suggestion.”
The city does not know exactly why the traffic signals went on the fritz Wednesday, cutting the time that lights stayed green and allowing cars to only trickle through intersections. “This is a freak incident that happened,” Mani Poola, the city’s traffic engineer, said yesterday. In his 18 years in Stamford, he said he had never seen anything like it.
