Traffic Engineering Quotes

“If you are a pedestrian, you are not mechanical enough to be of priority to traffic engineers.”
― Archimedes Muzenda, Dystopia: How The Tyranny of Specialists Fragment African Cities

“The contempt of motorists for pedestrians is so ironic, because no matter how many cars they have, they are also pedestrians, biologically. Unless they fly to the doors of their cars.”
― Archimedes Muzenda, Dystopia: How The Tyranny of Specialists Fragment African Cities

“Few people would dream of hiring a contractor to build them a house and expect it to be built to a safe standard only 85 percent of the time; similarly, few people would want to eat out in a restaurant where only 85 percent of the meals were safe to eat. Why then do we accept such sloppiness in road safety, where a situation in which 85 percent of drivers going the speed limit is deemed to be good enough?”
― Neil Arason