Can These ‘Floating’ Pedestrian Lanes Help Slow Down Drivers In India?
India recently found a way to at least slow down drivers by making ‘floating’ pedestrian lanes for the people.
These pedestrian lanes are actually not floating. They just look like floating because of being products of 3D painting.
In an article in Bored Panda, the Minister of India in transportation named Nitin Gadkari is hoping that this project will be a success and save many lives and teach drivers to slow down in pedestrian lanes.
He proposed to use 3D paintings to help stop or even slow down speeding drivers when approaching pedestrian lanes.
“We are trying out 3D paintings used as virtual speed breakers to avoid unnecessary requirements of speed breakers,” Gadkari said in a tweet.
How this should work?
The paintings will be seen as optical illusions thus, catching the attention of the drivers. The idea also came up from a decision done earlier this month to eliminate all speed-breakers from the roads and highways in India.
This is because speed-breakers could really mean much danger for the passing people and to themselves as well. Because of this, the government is looking for safer solutions and they are hoping that these ‘floating’ pedestrian lanes would help the solve or just reduce traffic incidents.
According to Ubergizmo, India has the most number of road incidents in the world.
This idea was not the first in India. In Philadelphia on 2008, this kind of campaign was also used to slow down drivers.
In China, this was also used by creating floating 3D crossings.
These 3D-painted pedestrian lanes have been tried in Ahmedabad and Chennai in India bu doing 3D zebra crossings.
Will this idea really work?
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