Showing posts with label traffic safety. Show all posts
Showing posts with label traffic safety. Show all posts
Monday, October 12, 2020

Statistics confirm that American drivers continue to massacre walkers and cyclists.

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Just the facts, folks. Sorry if it hurts your car to hear them. Exactly How Far U.S. Street Safety Has Fallen Behind Europe, in Three Bombsh...
Friday, September 18, 2020

Memo to Nawbany: "How Cities Can Reclaim Their Streets From SUVs."

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  Something seldom considered hereabouts: “Safety of people outside the vehicle — pedestrians, cyclists, or other motorists — is obviously a...
Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Traffic Cluster, Part Two: We'll never resolve traffic issues until "leadership" is willing to lead, not pander.

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It occurred to me last night that as the coronavirus pushes unprecedented bicycle sales, here and across the country, Jeff Speck gave us ...
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Saturday, May 09, 2020

Seattle's "Stay Healthy Streets": You can't even IMAGINE any of this ever occurring to Jeff Gahan, can you?

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No, it can't even be imagined. Consider this: Gahan's belated embrace of public art for the parking garage has resulted in a th...
Sunday, April 26, 2020

"The coronavirus shutdowns are making more obvious a pre-existing epidemic of reckless street design."

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A related story yesterday: The future of work, and of commuting to work, surely will be different. It should surprise no one that in ...
Sunday, August 04, 2019

"There have been 18 cyclist fatalities in New York so far this year. Perhaps drivers should face more serious consequences."

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" But without a systemic rethinking of the primacy of cars in urban life and the implementation of more aggressive ways to de-incent...
Monday, June 03, 2019

Five years ago today: "The more greatly a place conforms to post war auto centric design, the more injurious it is to people."

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Gahan, Rosenbarger set to go full frontal Pinocchio about their urbanism credentials when the Congress for the New Urbanism 27 meets in L...
Saturday, April 13, 2019

Routine traffic stops? "Let's stop using the terrible design of our cities as a random pretext and, instead, be proactive about fixing the design."

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I'm having trouble finding the extract from this essay that best conveys the central point, so I've chosen two. Routine Traffi...
Sunday, March 10, 2019

"Right now pedestrians are being killed and injured by motorists at the highest rate in decades."

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Just think about all those times when the bored of works enumerated the many splendid reasons why they couldn't (read: wouldn't) ...
Wednesday, December 26, 2018

Here's Jeff Speck to explain how speed kills -- and there's Team Gahan, ignoring him.

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Jeff Speck was on Twitter, Christmas Eve.  While many different factors influence the safety of humans in cities, none matters nearly s...
Friday, November 30, 2018

An addendum to yesterday's curious case: "Are we supposed to be sympathetic for a driver who was traveling at 144% of the speed limit?"

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And ... We'll continue posting these charts until all our readers have had the chance to learn from them. In the meantime, let...
Tuesday, September 25, 2018

In Tampa with bicycles, in New Albany with all of us: "The yellow-blinking-light crosswalk there now gives pedestrians and cyclists a false sense of security."

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On Twitter, Jeff Speck retweeted an important link:  The Most Dangerous Place to Bicycle in America , by Scott Calvert and Max Rust ( Wal...
Friday, June 29, 2018

Chris Morris on distracted driving: "Pedestrians have the right-of-way, and don’t block crosswalks with your vehicles."

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True story. Those of us not cocooned in our cars understand quite well what it is. Bullying, or the routine aggression that characte...
Friday, June 22, 2018

“Driving is the most likely way we’ll kill someone else, but we’re not treating cars like the dangerous things that they are.”

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100 times worse than we thought: Insights from a Zendrive’s 2018 Distracted Driving Snapshot I won't say "distracted walking...
Friday, April 27, 2018

Bullying, or the routine aggression that characterizes bad driving behavior.

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We begin with the basics. This means you: "STOP FUCKING DRIVING YOUR CAR AT PEOPLE." My favorite paragraph from the followi...
Tuesday, April 17, 2018

"It turns out the rich really are different from you and me. They drive like entitled jerks."

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Without further comment. It's official: The fancier the car, the more likely the driver's a jerk , by Alfred Lubrano ( Philly ...
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Wednesday, March 21, 2018

In the wake of Sunday's pedestrian murder by autonomous Uber in Arizona, councilman McLaughlin renews his call for proper speedway markings.

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They work where I work, he added. Whether Gahan or street grid, if we'd all just stay inside the boundary stripes, it would be so m...
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Monday, December 18, 2017

Meet Dongho Chang: "Seattle’s chief traffic engineer is less concerned with how fast cars are getting through the city and more concerned with how people — on foot, on bike, in buses and cars — interact with the streets."

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A boy can dream. I had such high hopes for Larry Summers, and maybe he'll be able to rally, but in the end -- so predictably, and so ...
Wednesday, November 08, 2017

Distraction kills: "We all know what’s going on, but we don’t have a breathalyzer for a phone."

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When you're walking, the scale of the problem quickly becomes evident. In a sad auto-centric world, it's important for walkers ...
Wednesday, August 30, 2017

SHANE'S EXCELLENT NEW WORDS: Salmoning, shoaling -- bicycling, to be exact.

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On Monday, the word "salmoning" appeared at NA Confidential for the first time in our 13-year history. Why it’s safer for b...