When to Stop Driving — No One is Excluded Shortly after I sold my accordion (my monkey died) I bought a ukulele. Seems like everyone I know plays the ukulele (or maybe I attract ukulele players). In any case, I’m certain that if everyone played the ukulele, the world...
Sometimes it Snows on Traffic Signals Ever since traffic signals were invented, the bulbs within not only produced light, they also produced heat. And although no one thought much about it at the time, this heat, quietly and without fanfare, kept traffic signals snow...
What Do They Do With All Those Little Nibs? Pedestrian crosswalks can be found at almost every intersection where pedestrians are allowed. And where you have crosswalks, you often find wheelchair ramps. In fact, wheelchair ramps are installed almost everywhere a...
I Learnt in the Second Grade Almost everything I know about solving traffic problems I learnt (learned?) in second grade from dear ol’ Mr. Hemoglobin. “Where you have a lot of cars, you have a lot of traffic,” he’d often say. And trust me, after writing that 500 times...
Questions You Can’t Answer It’s been a while since I took a written driving test — “I can drive,” I reminded them, “how do you think I got here?” In any case, they continued on and on about “rules” and “laws” and “our policy.” I even pressed the panic button on my...
(This is a 2-part column since there are actually 17 wonderments) (seriously) Unusual signs are one of the many topics addressed in traffic engineering journals (I’m assuming this — I’m not sure traffic engineering journals are actually a thing). And because many of...
