The Wrong Side of my Car
The blog that wants to go obsolete
Driveways: we’re Doing it Wrong
Robert Weetman has written a lot about footpath design on intersections, and why he prefers the Dutch design *1. I would also strongly prefer those designs over whatever is to be found here.
Streets are an example of the ‘everyday things’ that Don Norman writes about in his book Design of Everyday Things. You can definitely recognise similar thinking in that post. It shows the way good design helps people to intuitively do the right thing.
So, should we look at intersections in Auckland and see how these stack up? Eh, no. These are so uniformly bad it not worth bothering.
Let’s instead apply this line of thinking to driveways. Driveway crossings should be even less conspicuous than side streets. Since they are also places where turning car traffic gives way to pedestrians, you should see similar design features.
And driveway crossings, even though they don’t see many cars per day, we have a lot of them so they’re quite important.
Pedestrian give way rules: “We’re thinking about it”, year 4
About four years ago I wrote a post on our investigation on priority rules for pedestrians on crossings.
this Unique Piece of Kiwiana Heritage is going obsolete.
Nope, it did not.