A quick word in honour of Hans Monderman who died last month aged 62. He was a pioneer of sensible risk in road safety in the Netherlands, going against the orthodoxy that pedestrians and vehicles have to be separated at all costs and that straightening the raods and putting up lots of speed limit signs was what made the roads safer.
Monderman showed that drivers responded to less strict direction (fewer traffic lights and road markings for instance) by taking more responsibility themselves and driving more attentively. His idea of the "naked street" where drivers negotiate with each other and pedestrians has begun to influence policy here as well as elsewhere in Europe, simply because it improves road safety.
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