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...With tens of millions still on the road and forecasts predicting more bad weather, Wen may have committed the political sin of overpromising. But one political sin can often be expunged by another: deflecting the blame. A news clip airing on state television features an interview with a young migrant worker who insists loudly - and to the beaming approval of the collected cadres - that the crisis is "a natural disaster, not caused by administrative or leadership problems." True enough, but in a country where the public is constantly reminded of the omnipotence of the central government, some citizens...
...prosaic challenge of getting cars to slow down. Like every transport planner faced with the relentless proliferation of motor vehicles, he had started out by assiduously putting up signs, painting lines and devising new traffic-calming projects. One of his early specialties was to place giant flowerpots in the road to make drivers hit the brakes. But in 1982, Monderman risked a bolder approach, redesigning the street layout of car-clogged Frisian towns and villages. He began by removing the road signs, traffic lights and surface markings, then set about eliminating the curb between the sidewalk and the highway...
Proof of the principle may lie with Daniel Moylan, deputy council leader for the London borough of Kensington and Chelsea, whose controversial $30 million project to remake the busy Exhibition Road using shared-space principles begins in mid-2008. As well as being home to three major museums, the road will have to accommodate a subway station, bus routes, streams of traffic and the footfall of 10 million visitors a year. For Moylan, stripping out the jungle of street furniture will be a riposte to some decades-old assumptions about road use and the nature of risk. "Pavements were...
...overuse of signage was due to a misguided culture of risk avoidance among town planners. "Each time someone complains," he told TIME, "something gets added to the system. And no one asks if it's effective." But for the shared-space faithful, bigger prizes are at stake than mere road safety. For Moylan, the promise is "civilization and dancing in the streets." Likewise, Monderman rhapsodized that, "Eye contact and the consultation between civilians in public space is the highest quality you can get in a free country." His enduring vision echoes that of a poetic pedestrian from an earlier...
...When charities have to reach the five-percent spending rate, they can just write a check to another group, but we have to plan budgetary cycles over a much longer horizon,” Casey said. “To establish the rules of the road is fine, if there’s abuse. But you don’t always have to legislate...