All Blog Posts Tagged 'Traffic-calming' (1)

"A pilot project in Norfolk, England found that creating avenues of trees and hedges had a dramatic impact on motorists’ behavior.



The experiment at four villages – Overstrand, Martham, Coltishall and Mundesley – showed that drivers dropped their speed because of the cut in their peripheral vision.



In all there was a 20 per cent drop in the number of motorists driving at 40 to 60mph and overall average speeds fell by 1.5 per cent. At the same time trees were regarded as…