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I've not seen this one, but have seen others. I much prefer this sort of technique to change behaviors (get people to drive more slowly, or take the stairs by t

• thaumasiotes 6y ago
  In a similar vein, I've heard of a building addressing the problem "everyone complains about how long it takes to wait for the elevators" by, instead of trying to speed up the elevators, installing mirrors next to them.
  • bobthepanda 6y ago
    Airports also do this, by making the walk to baggage claim rather indirect. It turns out that people don't really mind the walking, but they do mind the waiting, so the solution is to make the walk match the time it takes for your luggage to actually get to the claim.
    • jacquesm 6y ago
      That only works in airports where the distance from the various gates is roughly equal to the reclaim area. Schiphol is definitely not one of those, from some gates it is 30 seconds to baggage reclaim, from others a stiff 10 minute walk.
      • RyJones 6y ago
        Delta always seems to land at the gate in Belgium, you walk over to Amsterdam, then walk to the baggage claim over in Rotterdam. Every time I fly in, I’m amazed at how much time we spend taxiing and how far from passport control our luggage claim is
        • jacquesm 6y ago
          That's the fifth landing strip, it is closer to Haarlem than to Hoofddorp (where Schiphol really is). 15 minutes taxiing is not exceptional there. You also cross two highways (A5 and A4) to get there.
        • awiesenhofer 6y ago
          > I’m amazed at how much time we spend taxiing I am baffled by this every time I am flying as well. That alone - for me at least - is a huge argument for taking the train vs the plane when traveling. Never had more than a 5 minute walk in european trainstations and no baggage claim either.
          • jacquesm 6y ago
            The main reason that landing strip is where it is is because of noise pollution rules. Schiphol was/is growing very fast as an international hub (faster still now that Heathrow will be out of the EU) and that caused a lot of flights over densely populated areas. There was some talk about moving the airport into the sea but that didn't work out either so in the end they added another strip in a relatively unpopulated area that allowed starts and landings from the direction of Alkmaar / Heemskerk / Beverwijk. Most of those including the line-up turns are over agrarian areas, though in some cases the agrarian strip is only a few 100 meters wide, for instance between Heemskerk and Uitgeest where a lot of planes make their turn into final approach.
    • thaumasiotes 6y ago
      It's very rare in my experience for your luggage to make it to the claim before you do. You're usually just sitting there, hoping luggage will eventually start to appear.
• robbrown451 6y ago
  Gives me the warm fuzzies too, but I kinda think the novelty will wear off pretty quickly if used in more than half a dozen places, and for more than a few years.
• ianai 6y ago
  There’s I40 which runs parallel to the road for that stretch of it. Speed limit is 65. I’m sure people still speed plenty on that stretch of singing road, but makes little sense when you can go much faster on the freeway next to it.
• dynamite-ready 6y ago
  Like nudge theory? If the road was a busy one with a ton of regular users, I can imagine something like this would eventually become a likely hazard, tbh.
• slezyr 6y ago
  Road rumble strips already wide spread and used for this exact reason.