It’s really unclear to me how there could be such discrepancy between a jury and the police investigation. What it tells me is that there is no police investigation.
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7 February 2012
safety on the road” can mean all kinds of things: from misguided and counterproductive fantasies through to getting the most vulnerable out of the way of the most dangerous.
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27 January 2012
Adding Neighborhood 20 MPH Zones Isn’t a Zero-Sum Game
But if Park Slope gets a slow zone before Greenwood Heights, or if Greenwood Heights gets a slow zone before Park Slope, research suggests both neighborhoods will still be better off.
Streetsblog and the New Yorker are debunking the same bad assumptions this week. Whether it’s speeding in a car, or mugging, or selling bad investments, preventing a crime from happening does not mean it will just happen somewhere else.
Crime and traffic are not “like water”, as sometimes claimed. If you make speeding and robbery difficult, people will do less of those things.
Water has different properties.
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11 December 2011
The poster using the handle ‘Shalom’ must not know what the word means. How else could they tell somebody who feels that an intersection in their neighborhood is unsafe, they should move somewhere else?!
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10 December 2011
After several progressively safer years, 2010 saw a 4.2 percent increase in pedestrian deaths—to 4,280, a difference of 171 human lives—and a whopping increase of about 11,000 nonfatal injuries.
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12 October 2011
Columbus Avenue Bike Lane Safety Data to be Revealed
At Tuesday’s meeting, DOT officials are expected to present data on accidents, how many cyclists use the lane, and how the lane has affected vehicle traffic. Brewer will also present findings from a recent survey measuring neighborhood reaction to the lane. The councilwoman’s survey asked participants whether they thought the bike lane has improved safety for cyclists and pedestrians.
Actual numbers of traffic deaths and injuries are given the same platform as a survey on whether or not people think traffic is safer. Instead of helping the facts inform opinions, a politician rushes to put them in opposition. America.
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15 September 2011
Because New Yorkers extensively ride transit and walk rather than drive, child traffic deaths are three times lower per capita than the national average. New York’s far safer transportation system saves enough lives that it is the primary reason why the overall mortality rate for local kids is 30 percent below the national average.
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10 August 2011
“Ain’t no bike lane on this street.”
“You’re blocking the road, faggot!” the passenger yelled at me from an open window.
Who talks like this? Autos must also be time machines.
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9 August 2011
New York City losing hundreds of thousands because of cops writing fewer tickets
Police brass are now reconsidering changing the penalty to three days for the first offense, five for a second and eight for a third — under a plan devised due to a widening ticket-fixing scandal in the department.
The ticket slowdown has prompted some bosses to threaten to ride along with cops so that they’ll be pressured to issue more tickets, sources said.
Last night on Adams I was stopped at a light next to a crossover SUV, that Nissan or Infiniti trophy model you still see a lot of. After all the pedestrians had crossed, its driver blithely proceeded through red light just as I was planning to do. I shrugged and followed on my bicycle.
Our roads are over-engineered for speed and under-designed for safety. Our traffic laws mostly protect the strong from the weak and the fast from the slow. But police refuse to enforce them anyway, if they must also enforce them against friends.
Something has got to give.
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21 July 2011
Gee DOT, Thanks for more of that excellent child killing traffic plague that we all love.
