Jimmy Wales wrote:
There are lessons to be learned here. In the design of proper traffic systems, it's important to not fight against human nature. Rather than expecting and hoping people to behave properly at huge intersections, it's safer to build overpasses and ramps.
Interestingly, in the Netherlands they've recently experimented with *removing* traffic lights from accident blackspot junctions -- the results are that everyone drives *very* carefully and accidents are far fewer. ... though how that relates to wikipedia I have no idea ... :)
(ponders...) the no-traffic-light approach is Ward's original Wiki concept, I suppose: no rules so people have to tread carefully. CommunityMayNotScale, though.