<div>Maybe one year ago, at the bottom of Tenth Street, the city built a new sidewalk with a curbed outcropping jutting out into the street. By happenstance, a couple of years earlier I read an article in the nytimes about traffic control in, I believe it was Holland/Netherlands/Denmark? It was Northern Europe. The whole jist of the article was smart traffic engineering. Use your environment to slow people down. The logic works like this: If you are running in a field, you will run very fast. When you come to the edge, you will slow. When you are on an open trail you will run very fast. When the trail is closed in on both sides by trees, you will slow. The Netherlands uses far fewer stop signs, lights, and speed bumps. What they in fact use is engineering that replicates a naturally impeding environment. Such as curbed outcroppings. It was so interesting to me to see this in Providence. And I have noticed the traffic slow on Hope street at the bottom of Tenth.
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<div>If anybody knows the story of how that bit of curbed outcropping came to be at the bottom of Tenth Street, then maybe that would be a nice solution further up Hope street.</div>
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<div>Brian Sullivan</div>
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