Self-study
Recently, many traffic lights and street markings were temporarily removed from a heavily traveled street in a major metropolitan area. █████ ████ ████ ██████ ███████████ ███████████ ███████ ██ ██████████ ████████ ███ ██████ ██ █████████ ██ ███ ██████ ███ ████████ ██ █████████ ████████ ████ ██████ ███ ██████ ███████████ ██ █████████ ██ ████████ ███ ██████ ██ █████████ ███ ███████ ████████
"Surprising" Phenomenon
When traffic lights and street markings that are designed to increase street safety were removed, the number of accidents on the street did not increase as expected, but instead diminished greatly, even though the amount of traffic on the street did not decrease.
Objective
The right answer will describe a safety benefit to the removal of the traffic lights and street markings. The benefit will help explain why accident numbers went down after the traffic lights and street markings were removed.
Analysis by HollyShulman
5.
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e
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