When it comes to crossing the average city or suburban street, people fall into four categories.

People who evaluate the situation for themselves and cross on their own terms. Finally, my personal ideal. These are people who don’t stupidly run across the street with a blatant disregard for their surroundings. Yet they’ll take a step forward, and as the last car passes they have no problem looking both ways and crossing. They realize that it’s pointless to sit and wait around for the last fifteen seconds while life passes them by and the street sits empty. They’re willing to take a calculated “risk” and not just follow rules blindly because “that’s the way it is.”

Possibly you’ll never again complain about potholes on local roads after seeing this video of a section of the highway between, I believe, the Ukrainian cities of Ternopil and Lviv.

They definitely need New York City’s pothole repair team here.

Via English Russia.

I doubt any town or city could function properly without a roving team, or teams, of people who take care of the potholes that constantly spring-up on its road networks.

Traffic lights that incorporate a hourglass, giving motorists an indication of when the signal will change from one phase to another… while certainly pleasing visually, reservations have been expressed about the usability of such a system in some of the discussion accompanying the source article.

A proposal by Dutch designers, NL architects, could result in the construction of a far from ordinary bridge roadway connecting Hong Kong to the Chinese mainland, which would include artificial islands serving as car parks and bus stations.

Under the proposal, a “flipper” would be incorporated along the connecting roadway, allowing Hong Kong motorists – who drive on the left – to switch safely and effortlessly to the right, the side Chinese drivers use, and vice versa.

Forward, the only way to go.

A random road trip road stop somewhere.

Since there are no footpaths on many of Budgewoi’s roadways, pedestrians and motor vehicles have to share.

I can only drive in one direction at a time anyway.

Useful or not? A red traffic light with a ticker counting down the time until the light changes to green.

Stankovic promotes this stoplight as an eco solution in the following ways: If you’ve got the amount of time you’ve got to stop in front of you, you can shut your engine off, wait, be calm, and turn it back on again when the time is almost up. This not only lessens the amount of gas you use sitting still, but it lessens the amount of crazy madness you have wondering if the stoplight is stuck, or just really, really long.