A 1956 Traffic Quarterly paper advises us to dismiss such fears, saying, “An influential and intelligent but difficult citizen whose 7-year-old daughter was to enter a new school . . . argued the Parent-Teacher Association into petitioning the council of the city for a fixed time signal to protect the children crossing the highway.”12 Unfortunately, this parent was only “an average road user” and not experienced with traffic problems like the paper’s author, Fred Herring. Yet, for reasons unbeknown to Fred, this parent “persisted in his demand for the fixed time signal.” Fortunately, “in the
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