An unassuming Dutch traffic engineer showed that streets without signs can be safer than roads cluttered with arrows, painted lines, and lights. Are we ready to believe him? Best-selling author ...

One lane of traffic comes zooming in from the south to meet three lanes of transcontinental, Seattle-to-Boston traffic. Signs on I-90 politely ask motorists to move over, but they largely go unheeded.

State-level departments of transportation love putting funny or topical messages on digital traffic signs, but new rules at the federal level might bring the fun and games to an end.

Are streets without traffic signs conceivable? Seven cities and regions in Europe are giving it a try -- with good results. Von Matthias Schulz. 16.11.2006, 14.39 Uhr. Zur Merkliste hinzufügen; ...

Traffic signs go up when the law requires them, or an engineer does the math and decides it’s the right thing for that location. Related Stories from Bellingham Herald Rules of the Road ...

VARANASI: The city is celebrating traffic month without proper traffic signs, symbols and signals. Gross violation of traffic rules has turned one-month event into a formality and the lack of ...

New York City's Department of Transportation has taken an artful approach to safety: colorful traffic signs written in haiku. "Poetry has a lot of power," says artist John Morse. "The idea is to ...

Several of the signs were concentrated along 28th Street, a busy north-south thoroughfare that the city has identified as being particularly dangerous.