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October Saint Petersburg loves to put arrows pointing straight ahead on its traffic lights.  The city also loves little secondary traffic lights. The solution used in Moscow, for example, is to put large secondary lights on the opposite side of the intersection.  A street sign, already outdated, is safely hidden behind a traffic light. It has a good chance of remaining there, unnoticed, for another decade.  An experiment is being carried out on one of the intersections: half the roadway has been given over to trams, the tram stops are now islands with a railing separating them from car traffic, the pedestrian crossings have been raised above the road surface (like in Toledo) and are made of stone.  There are even wheelchair ramps, but the designers failed to think one thing through: as soon as a wheelchair rolls down from the sidewalk, it bumps into the raised edge of the crosswalk.  |
