The Western Cape has done everything from publishing videos of accidents on its website, making car seats mandatory for infants, building verges to separate pedestrians from traffic, naming and shaming drunk drivers in a local newspaper, and running brutal ad campaigns such as the recent prize-winning First Kiss ad.
In the mid-1980s, a Dutch traffic engineer named Hans Monderman was sent to the village of Oudehaske.
Central to the area is the Elephant and Castle, a large traffic roundabout named for an 18th-century inn.
Thirteen years later, a retired traffic engineer named Tom Mahood, who specializes in tracking desert disappearances and U.F.O.s, uncovered their remains.
The flower-bedecked courtyard, insulated from Park Avenue traffic and named for a church warden and vestryman, has a fountain and Romanesque-style arches.
His victims included his own mother and an unarmed traffic policeman, named last night as PC Roger Bereton, aged 41, a married man with two teenage sons.
On a recent Tuesday, at 6 38 a.m., a traffic coordinator named Robert Didato scanned the television screens that flash images from more than 90 cameras along I-95 in Connecticut.
A few months ago, some barriers were lowered so that passers-by could at least see more of the interior, including the statue of Frederick Douglass, the anti-slavery hero, standing eight feet tall in the traffic circle named for him — but covered in tarpaulin and bound in ropes.
Is it any wonder that Media Metrix, a company that measures web traffic, recently named N2K's Music Boulevard the fastest-growing music site on the web, pulling in about half-a-million visitors a month.
So many people are taking it right now that it might be down, but TorrentFreak reports that 10 ISPs in the US are shaping traffic — non named yet, though.
