N.Y. Traffic Deaths Rise

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/nyregion/nyc-deaths-pedestrian-cycling.html

by drkimball • 6 years ago

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huebomont4• 6 years ago

It's the giant SUVs. The answer is obvious just by walking around, but the data is an obvious correlation as well. Any car that you can't see a child out of should be illegal.

generalpass• 6 years ago

Nobody ever accused journalists of being statisticians.

jshaqaw• 6 years ago

NYC could easily have a red light camera on every significant corner and real penalties for blowing through a light. Right now minority of drivers but a significant enough minority blows through lights because they know they most likely won't get caught and the penalties for doing so are a slap on the wrist. If there was a $1k ticket for blowing a red light believe me it would stop really quickly

huebomont4• 6 years ago

Skip the red light camera phase and just start redesigning the streets so they don't invite speeding and dangerous driving. No amount of enforcement is ever going to stop assholes. Making them feel like they might hurt THEMSELVES if they drive recklessly will.

jimmyvalmer• 6 years ago

If you mean setting up streets like the Monaco Grand Prix, you're in for a treat. Nothing inflames the male urge to nail the throttle like a hairpin turn or dangerous looking street "berm". Congestion pricing would be my first-order solution. Fewer cars fewer accidents is inarguable.

MisterTea• 6 years ago

Don't know why you're getting modded down. This is precisely the aim of Vision Zero. They have been narrowing streets, experimenting with zig-zag roads along schools, extending curbs into streets etc. The idea is to slow traffic down.

Right now were in a transitional phase where drivers are feeling the squeeze and starting to get riled up. Plus the overcrowding is not helping either. So drivers are not only more fatigued from traffic but now feeling at odds with pedestrians because of these modifications. I suspect that this is the reason for the spike. I've lived here my whole life and it's way more crowded than ever. Pedestrians are spilling into the streets and competing with drivers.

The need to push and remove more needless cars. I also want to see more bike lanes. Some of the roads I have seen narrowed have left plenty of room for dedicated or protected bike lanes but they left as unmarked no man's land. I also see some roads and intersections with very questionable redesigns and traffic patterns which force cars and pedestrians to fight. So the city needs to accept that some intersections they have designed arent as safe as they want them to be. One redesign by me has forced a lot of traffic through the local side streets which are major pedestrian routes (school right down the roads with lots of children about) and have not received ANY vision zero attention at all. So they just push the problems from one place to another. The only way to fix the issues is to eliminate cars. Honestly, they need a quota or some other restriction of ownership and driving in NYC.

N.Y. Traffic Deaths Rise

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