Walking Paper

“When you treat people like idiots, they’ll behave like idiots.”

Have a quick read of The Traffic Guru. It describes how removing traffic rules and signs in a small village prompted people to be more social and become better drivers.

“A year after the change, the results of this “extreme makeover” were striking: Not only had congestion decreased in the ­intersection—­buses spent less time waiting to get through, for ­example—­but there were half as many accidents, even though total car traffic was up by a third.”

Could such a strategy work in your library? Would you be willing to try?