Turn Signals

Posted on January 9, 2025January 7, 2025 by Simon

My hope for 2025: Everybody uses their turn signals every time they turn or change lanes. In Arizona turn signals are not used regularly at all. The excuses vary: I’m in the turn lane so its obv... Read More

Traffic

Posted on January 8, 2025January 7, 2025 by Simon

“When you are in traffic, you are also traffic.” In the immortal words of President Obama: “We are the people we have been waiting for.” Stop complaining. We are part of what w... Read More

Traffic Circles Part Two

Posted on August 17, 2021August 16, 2021 by Simon

Last week I wrote a blog entry about traffic circles and my discovery of why I dislike them. Alert reader Andy B. Directed me to a podcast on this very subject on FreakonomicsRadio. It was packed with... Read More

Traffic Circles

Posted on August 13, 2021 by Simon

Bend, Oregon might be the traffic circle capital of the United States. We are in Bend so I’ve been driving through dozens every day and thinking why I don’t like them. I have never been a big prop... Read More

The Freeway Dream

Posted on July 5, 2018June 12, 2018 by Simon

I got this postcard from a Postcrossing connection last week. The card is from the early 1960’s and it shows the intersection of the Pasadena and Hollywood freeways. But what it’s says on ... Read More

Pedestrians in Phoenix

Posted on May 18, 2018May 17, 2018 by Simon

The Street Transportation Department of the City of Phoenix has studied pedestrian collisions and in December 2017 they issued a Pedestrian Collision Summary. It is thorough, readable and in the detai... Read More

Simon Burrow

Quirky thoughts from an old man.

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