[tptacek]

Doesn't this imply that cities could alleviate traffic pathologies by hiring people to drive carefully down the highway?

[designtofly]

This was the focus of a short video a group of college students made a few years ago, "A Meditation On the Speed Limit."

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5366552067462745475

[kingnothing]

Is that the video in Atlanta where they drive side by side around I-285 at the speed limit of 55 mph? It's an interesting social experiment, but I'm surprised none of them were driven off the road. Traffic on the left on 285 generally moves at 70 - 80 mph here.

[jcl]

He suggests on one of the later pages that cities should have state troopers drive in a constant-speed band across the lanes. (He also points out that group of citizens doing this independently in Toronto was arrested for it.)