This is an excellent essay on the need for traffic enforcement as a tool for reducing traffic accidents (shocking this even needs to be argued, but it does). Speed cameras, definitely, but also traditional policing for seatbelts, impaired driving and such...
@TheAtlantic The article confronts directly the idea in Vision Zero debates, no less pernicious for being subtext, that social justice demands tolerance of reckless driving. Withdrawing the public service of enforcement—esp. automated enforcement, which I advocate widely—is not constructive.
@jobforphilly @JoshuHarris Loss of existing trees is the biggest problem. A new tree doesn’t replace the canopy of an existing tree for a decade or more. We did a good job planting new trees for the last decade and still lost canopy.
"For decades, Sarah’s leadership, ingenuity, and determination have made it safer to walk and bike in Greater Philadelphia and South Jersey,” said Ryan Chao, President of @railstotrails
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Rina Cutler used to tell about a meeting she had with the PennDOT manager in charge of I95. He had never been to Philadelphia. She sent him on a study tour.
Let the state folks know how their money is being spent, begin to chip away at some of the ignorance. Whether we like it or not, we have to have these folks on board in order for the city to move forward. 6/6
People with zero engineering experience will go to meetings like this and yell at the CEs who designed it that they should have gone with a cantilever instead of truss bridge and site how long they’ve lived in the neighborhood as support for why they are right.
As cars and pickup trucks have become bigger and heavier, we have seen pedestrian fatalities reach historic highs.
We cannot ignore the growing body of research that links such vehicles to increased risk for pedestrians.
I'm taking action with the Pedestrian Protection Act ⬇️
Also to be clear I think this is something that the state DOTs need to figure out. You cannot tell me there is not a better way to do temp tags for people than randomly printing some numbers and hand scrawling a date on card stick.