A seat belt, sometimes also known as a safety belt, is one of the most basic (and effective) safety measures used in passenger vehicles to secure drivers and occupants during frontal collisions or abrupt halts. Although seat belts are a long-standing, universal standard, drivers and passengers often neglect to buckle up. According to statistics published …
Attention road users: April is Distracted Driving Awareness Month, and MyParkingSign wants you to join in advocating safer roads for pedestrians, bicyclists, and motorists. Why? The amount of drivers who take their eyes off the road is disturbing: in a recent study, 69% of American adults admitted to using their cell phone while driving during the month …
Road disasters happen, whether you live in a two stoplight town in rural New England or drive an auto rickshaw in populous Bangalore, India. However, new research by the Worldwide Health Organization reveals the alarming statistic that an astonishing 1.24 million people died on the world’s roads in 2010. Learning that road traffic deaths are …
Communication about inclement weather would be part of the “Dynamic Paint” system proposed by the Dutch design team (via Studio Roosegaarde). Reflectivity on the roads might be getting a whole new coat of paint soon, thanks to some innovative ideas coming out of Europe. Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde, working alongside the civil engineers at Heijmans …
After the NYPD’s crackdown on bicycle traffic violations engineered by Operation Safe Cycle, cyclists complained that the wrong offenses were being targeted, and there was no effort to educate the city’s thousands of bikers (via Transportation Nation). There’s nothing like taking a leisurely bike ride and then being slapped with a $270 ticket! Although, these …
Accidents between vehicles and pedestrians have become an all-too-common scene on the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey (via Asbury Park Press). Despite precautions like crosswalks, cities across the country are seeing increases in collisions between pedestrians, vehicles and bicycles. Officials are desperately trying to find new methods to prevent injuries and save lives on …
Our morning “blimps” of New York. September 6, 2012 — Today, from the windows of our New York offices, a line of blimps promenaded across the skyline, emerging over the harbor heliport and disappearing over Jersey. If there ever was a reason for Lady Liberty to look up, it was this unusual family—two bigger blimps, …
Slow down — for your health, and your wallet (via RoadTrafficSigns.com). August 21, 2012 — If you’ve got a lead foot, your need for speed could cost you – in more ways than you think. Now add your life insurance company to the list of folks keeping tabs on your driving habits (and what those …
(via PedestrianSigns) August 3, 2012 — Imagine being stranded on one side of the road for an hour, unable to cross the street as a never-ending line of cars wiz by. Sound unlikely? If it weren’t for Pedestrian crossings or crosswalks, we all would be stuck waiting for traffic to subside. If it didn’t, we’d …
Air traffic will be streamlined with the new plans for control tower modernization. (via RoadTrafficSigns) July 26, 2012 — Air traffic control has become the center of attention in the past few weeks as issues with outdated equipment and the decentralization of control towers causing delays and headaches for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). At the …
Red-light cameras are an enforcement tool against red-light runners (image via Southdacola). July 20, 2012 — The controversial Red Light Camera Program, which records drivers stopped at red lights, has reached national attention from California and Texas to Florida and New York. In each case, municipalities are fiercely debating the merits of the program to determine …