Idiot Mayor Causes Chaos After Removing Road Signs To 'Calm Traffic'
A crossroads in a Romanian town had all its signs removed by the mayor in an attempt to 'calm traffic'. Much crashing followed...
While we haven’t been able to find any local news sources to verify this, the uploader claims that the mayor has defended his bizarre decision. After coming under fire at a town hall meeting, the mayor is said to have referred to the spate of crashes as ‘slight problems’. A local man mounted a camera in a tree to capture the mayhem, resulting in the footage you see here.
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Maybe this person wasn’t insane
Stupidiest traffic solution ever.
This Mayor may not be that idiot….
People just need a bit of time to change their behavior.
2008 - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1028740/Accident-free-zone-The-German-town-scrapped-traffic-lights-road-signs.html
2016 - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/04/removal-road-markings-safer-fewer-accidents-drivers
The Mayor has shares in the local garage
I don’t think this is in Romania. I personally haven’t heard about any of this and some of the YouTube comments on the video say that it is a Russian town Serpuochov.
Because logic! Oh wait…
Fact: autobahns exists with no speed limits and “traffic calming measures”, just good road surface and everything to ensure that cars can go safely at high speed
Fact: there are very few accidents on autobahns
Fact: almost any attempt to “calm traffic” by removing road markings (like they recently tried in the UK), traffic signs, etc results in more accidents
So why can’t they make any inferences from these facts?
FailRace dat u?
It’s just a prank bro!
Why would they come into the intersection so hot? Here in the US, there are intersections with no signs, especially by my house, and you just come in slow and it’s on a 1st come 1st serve type of basis. You wouldn’t come in at 40mph without a care in the world either.