"We need to bring traffic down there".
"Nothing's going to slow the traffic down," he said, "because you can't go any slower".
There are new efforts under way to widen sidewalks and even to slow traffic down.
The only sounds were the traffic down below, a garbage truck, church bells chiming.
"We want to generate a fair amount of traffic down here.
"There are certain ways to keep the amount of traffic down, but it will cost more money.
"It's safer because it slowed the traffic down," said Ms. Frank, who also lives in the neighborhood.
But with vehicle traffic down drastically because of the storm, no gasoline shortages are expected, and gasoline futures prices have generally been stable.
"It's unthinkable to lay that kind of traffic down on top of Tod's Driftway, which is as narrow as 16 feet in some places".
But the figure that represents the reality of investment in road safety, the one implied by local authorities' spending on, for instance, measures to slow traffic down, or to provide pedestrians with safe places to cross roads, is a miserly £100,000 per life.Save lives, not politicians' facesFrom the politicians' point of view, this may be rational.
(Modern designs include mechanisms for slowing traffic down as it nears the roundabouts, for example, and do not allow pedestrians onto the centre of the circle).Although exact statistics are hard to come by, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) estimates that America has 1,000 modern-style roundabouts.
