3 Replies to “PETITION: Release Grieving Mother of Hit-and-Run & Install a Crosswalk”

  1. Richard Layman of Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space has some excellent points in his post "Bad design kills" which I’ll just jump to the ending:

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    As said on the SF Bay Area Metropolitan Transportation Commission website:
    "Pedestrians are unlikely to walk to an intersection if it is a block or more away from the bus stop. Therefore, it is important to provide pedestrian crossings at bus stops, especially if there are pedestrian generators across the street."

    Raquel Nelson could well be going to jail because of design failures committed by the local transit system and local and state highway departments.

    But given that the Georgia DOT refers to sidewalks as "accident recovery zones" where drivers of out of control cars have the space to get their bearings, this shouldn’t be seen as a surprise.

    https://urbanplacesandspaces.blogspot.com/2011/07/bad-design-kills.html

  2. Highlighting a few thoughts of Philip Langdon of New Urban Network:

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    What’s needed is a more responsible policy by governments and transportation departments — one that recognizes realities of human behavior and takes the safety of pedestrians as seriously as motorists’ desires.

    The only up side of the Cobb County case is that it’s receiving attention just as Congress is putting forward a new transportation bill. Under Chairman John Mica, a Republican from Winter Park, Florida, the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has decided to eliminate dedicated funding for pedestrian improvements.

    With children dying on unsafe suburban arterials, perhaps some of our representatives will think harder about whether pedestrian safety ought to be nothing more than an option, decided at the state level — a level where, unfortunately, pedestrian deaths are often blamed on those who get in the cars’ way.

    https://newurbannetwork.com/article/georgia-verdict-shocks-advocates-pedestrians-15030

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