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Better than speed bumps?

Government researchers in Scotland have recommended making roads appear more dangerous in order to slow down traffic: by narrowing roads, blurring pavement edges, and removing white lines from the middle of roads. Some of these techniques have already be used in parts of England; in Wilshire, removing central white lines on suburban roads cut accidents by a third.