How Many Licks?
Jun 12, 2011
It's good to know that the truck full of tootsie-roll pops is still out there, rolling on down the road.
Hole in the Clouds
Tag: traffic
"Mothers' Barricade Removed by Police"
Feb 16, 2015
Between 1950 and 1953, Philadelphians demonstrated repeatedly in many neighborhoods, seeking stop signs, traffic lights, and one-way traffic patterns in hopes of making the city's narrow streets safer for pedestrians, especially children.
In June 1952, these women and children blocked off Sansom Street at 32nd Street, to draw attention to a block where seven children had been hit by cars in a single month. Police broke up the demonstration and arrested three of the women.
At some point between then and now, city officials made almost all the streets in and around center city one-way and installed stop signs or red lights at virtually ever corner.
Pedestrian safety is no longer a major political issue. Parking, on the other hand. . . .
Footwear #1: Pedestrian
Mar 13, 2016
It has been suggested that here in this Washington, D.C., intersection in 1923, Officer Banks developed the protopye for a kind of traffic signaling that is still with us today.
When you see the shoe: Walk. No shoe: Don't walk.