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Aug 30 2010

Episode 35 - New Drivers Experiences

Published by Bill Ruhsam under education, podcast

Topics: New Drivers, Interview

 
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Aug 18 2010

Xkcd to the Rescue

Published by Bill Ruhsam under fun

Randall Munroe is the man.

Xkcd # 781

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Aug 17 2010

Episode 34 - Safety and Funding

Published by Bill Ruhsam under Funding, safety, podcast

Topics: Safety, Funding

 
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Aug 06 2010

The Road Goes Ever On

Published by Bill Ruhsam under opinion, blog admin

Forest Road

The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.

–J.R.R. Tolkien

I read The Lord of the Rings at an impressionable age. This particular poem is one of the ones that stuck with me. It’s generally applicable to almost any situation that involves inconstancy or motion or change.

Today marks the third anniversary of the first podcast published on Talking Traffic. I thought about doing a retrospective of some sort via the podcast but decided it wasn’t worth your time. So, here is me marking the moment. I hope you’ve been enjoying reading and listening here.

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Aug 02 2010

Episode 33 - Safety: A Brief Disposition

Published by Bill Ruhsam under safety, podcast

Topics: Safety: A Brief Disposition

 
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Jul 28 2010

Beware of those Pot Holes

Published by Bill Ruhsam under news

A sinkhole in Milwaukee, WI, ate an SUV and a traffic signal pole.

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Jul 24 2010

Episode 32.5 - Metacast

Published by Bill Ruhsam under metacast, podcast

Topics: Metacast - What’s going on in Talking Traffic land.

 
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May 10 2010

This is not your Childhood Roadkill

Published by Bill Ruhsam under international

The Boston Globe’s Big Picture has photo essays that are well worth your time.

Today’s is about animals. One of the pictures takes you to a (sad) shot of some very large roadkill.

I used to commute on I-88 in upstate NY. I saw roadkill turkeys, geese and deer all the time. Around here I see opossum, cats, dogs, squirrels, raccoons and the occasional armadillo. I’ve never seen anything like that link.

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May 10 2010

Guerrilla Traffic Calming

Published by Bill Ruhsam under politics, international

Poorly Placed Pedestrian Pushbutton
A protest over “‘motorway levels’ of cars and lorries on a road with no pavement for pedestrians” is taking the form of a series of people standing at a pedestrian pushbutton, continuously activating it and making a call for the pedestrian phase.

According to the Environmental Transport Agency in England, the activation of the pedestrian signal is “causing tailbacks up to four miles long in the process.”

I’m wondering what laws are being broken during this protest, if any? In Georgia, I can’t think of any specific laws that would prohibit me from continuously calling for a pedestrian signal. I’m sure there’s something in the GA Code (annotated) that would allow me to be cited, but I don’t know what it is off the top of my head. Public Nuisance?

An innovative protest using system resources against itself.

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Apr 16 2010

Speed Humps

Published by Bill Ruhsam under news, traffic calming

Christian Yarnell of the Columbia School of Journalism had a conversation with me last month about speed humps. Here is his final article. It’s well worth the read. He manages to summarize pretty much the entire situation around these traffic calming devices.

Speed Humps face a Roadblod

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