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Fake complexity: traffic control

Submitted by Mathieu Helie on Fri, 07/24/2009 - 18:23, last updated Sun, 11/06/2011 - 00:54

The University of Minnesota Center for Transportation Studies Intelligent Transportation Systems Institute has produced a handy little flash game where you can experience the life of a traffic planner in a series of increasingly complicated traffic challenges.

A pattern language for New York streets

Submitted by Mathieu Helie on Fri, 05/22/2009 - 13:02, last updated Mon, 04/09/2012 - 15:31

The New York City Department of Transportation has published its street design manual, a collection of patterns that make absolutely no references to any traffic control devices of any kind.

The geometry of nowhere

Submitted by Mathieu Helie on Sat, 04/04/2009 - 08:00, last updated Sun, 02/19/2012 - 23:32

I hate sidewalks.

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