That’s one way to stop traffic!
A road safety campaign in Russia has come up with a clever way to force drivers to slow down. These clever chelkas used topless women to carry speed limit signs, and it turned out it was a very effective way to slow down traffic!
The scheme involves near naked women parading along the side of the road at accident prone hot spots. A trial showed that the idea significantly slowed traffic near a pedestrian crossing in Severny village, in the central Nizhny Novgorod region in Russia.
Road safety campaign Avto Dvizheniya, who staged the trial, said that 'most speeding drivers, the majority of whom happened to be men, slowed down to admire the female road safety assistants.'While the trial dates from 2013, the idea has been revived in September 2016 as part of a new national debate on reducing the 30,000 a year deaths on Russia's roads. The topless women held signs warning of 60 and 40 kilometers per hour. There were no reports of accidents caused by drivers being distracted.
There were also reports that elderly pedestrians were grateful for the bizarre method, claiming they took their lives in their hands each time they use the designated road crossing.
'One of the models who stripped off for the experiment said: 'Our drivers usually do not slow down when they pass a village or a settlement even though their are speed limit signs by the road. So we have to make them do it”
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Sadly this experiment won’t do well in the Philippines since we’re already slowing down in heavy traffic all the time.
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