[sustran] Streetsblog: Doing its job in New York City. In memoriam 2010

[eric britton]

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Each year our friends over at Streetsblog in New York City publish a
heart-rending testimonial to the mayhem that automobiles have wrought over
the year on their city's streets and the cost in terms of lives lost by
innocent pedestrians and cyclists. Putting names, faces and human tragedy to
what otherwise takes the form of dry numbers, faceless hence quickly
forgettable statistics is an important task. We can only encourage
responsible citizens and activists in every city on the planet to do the
same thing, holding those public officials (and let's not forget, we call
them "public servants" and for excellent reason) responsible for what goes
on under their direct control.

And if there is a single lesson to be learned it is surely this: traffic on
the streets of all our cities needs to be slowed down a sane and efficient
10/20/30 mph and no faster; supported a strict "Street Code", whereby in
every case the lighter slower party is fully protected both in terms of
immediate enforcement, the law and insurance matters. (Is it really that
hard to be decent?) Read more of this post
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