Where do you find cutting-edge metro design experiments aimed at improving pedestrian and traffic flows, resource efficiencies, and the every-day life of citizens? Well, it’s the trail-blazing, pioneering world-class metropolises you would expect – like New York, Tokyo… and Prescott,AZ.
Check out the radical traffic control test Prescott is conducting right now just off of Whiskey Row, and find out what the Pickle Lady has to say about diagonal living.
Our Old Wine Down Mentioned: Traffic Calming
Video Transcript good morning hello peeps this is randall and diane brooke prescott arizona arizona i put on my christmas attire and i brought my christmas cheer my holiday cheer uh so we are here to introduce to you our new traffic camera traffic control test you’re in question if you’re going to check out a traffic control test there’s always traffic so there’ll be traffic noise on this one so this is kind of a new little development here yeah since we have so many people who come to wisconro and the square and it’s a good tourist section of town right here they have actually put in what we call diagonal cross diagonal crossing at four-way stops at four-way stops it’s pretty cool so right now there’s a test going on at one corner one of our busiest corners right on whiskey row yep which is uh montezuma and gurley yes so i just did some walking across the diagonal yeah she’s good she she tries it out and she’s trying to be like a holiday elf holiday elf running across right yeah diagonal crosswalk yes and walking across the traditional so i i uh showed you how it’s done so when you come visit here don’t be afraid i like the way yes that’s right she’s blazing the trail all right what’d you think it felt a little different kind of like when you’re falling in love for the second time you know the first time it’s just amazing and you’re just like oh my gosh i i’ve never felt like this and the second time when you fall in love with somebody else maybe feels just as good but just a little different i didn’t see much difference i really thought i’m going to get killed is what i really want but it just goes to show you that here in this town we are progressive we have diagonal crossing which is only what you see in big big country yet japan tokyo so uh prescott is progressive here man we are up and coming so how much how much time do you think you save going diagonally versus i don’t think i see anything i’m gonna be honest yeah no because you you know you have to wait for it’s really not to help us it’s really not to help pedestrians can’t tell i think it’s to help traffic flow that’s what this is about yes because my track is slow because then people can’t take the right on red because pedestrians are crossing so really this is to keep traffic going so people aren’t backed up you know trying to make a right turn on red waiting yeah well that could that’s what this is about it’s really not about pedestrians well if you look at if you look at the basic geometry and mathematics you would think that it would be about 29 shorter 29 shorter in terms of the walk and it would be about two-thirds quicker in terms of the weight but yep you go up to the light you have to wait for the light you know i’ll tell you what i felt i felt annoyed because he was directing me press the button she kept going to the wrong corner the wrong that’s what i felt was just annoying because i’m also freezing and go to the that’s what i thought i didn’t feel any time saving or whatever but well we’ll see what happens we don’t know if the uh the how long the test is gonna last no i would think maybe through this year i don’t know it’s been going on for a few months now it’s kind of cool and uh you know we are keeping up with uh keeping up with the time yes moving forward into 2020 in the 2020s the traffic control tests and traffic calming if you haven’t seen our traffic calming video traffic we should check out our traffic into trash a lot of things a lot of things have been cool yeah where can they find you my life you can find me at prescottpicklelady.com 713-302-1964 you can check out our seller’s site we sell prescott.com you also find a link on our regular site prescott piccolo correct so we’re all there me randall we’re here to serve you help you find your perfect place here in prescott absolutely and happy holidays and save some time cut corners cut corners but in a safe and effective way i’ll cut corners where are you going to hurt yourself please corners on whiskey right absolutely all right next time have a wonderful day bye