> On May 10, 2012, at 10:29 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote:
> That wasn't Michael's point. He seems to be clearly
> saying that chaotic is safer.
Mmmm. I meant to say it was better. Safer is hard to quantify; better, fortunately for me, is impossible. Yet one has strong, experientally-based intuitions on the subject.
Gotta read that PDF linked to earlier; haven't yet, and won't be able to for a day or so. My own views on these matters are founded mostly on my own experience over the last, oh, forty years or so, as driver, cyclist and pedestrian. I feel a lot safer on a European chaotic street -- like Piazza del Popolo -- than I do on a regimented Amurrican street, like Queens Boulevard.
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