{"id":146843383,"date":"2009-08-27T13:49:43","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T13:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=146843383"},"modified":"2009-08-27T13:49:43","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T13:49:43","slug":"from-chaos-to-compliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=146843383","title":{"rendered":"From Chaos to Compliance"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The NYPD likes to brag that they issued 1.2 million traffic tickets last year. That’s not much considering that drivers run 1.2 million red lights each day. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


\nIn New York City, the phrase “traffic law” often seems a misnomer for the rules of the road. More often, those “laws” appear to be suggestions, recommendations or afterthoughts.<\/p>\n

To test this assumption, T.A., with the help of dozens of volunteers, set out to quantify just how often New York City’s traffic laws are broken. We sent out scores of observers to a few big intersections and recorded nearly 40 hours of traffic data. In doing so, T.A. was able to demonstrate a simple method for understanding the pervasiveness of traffic violations that the City could easily adopt.<\/p>\n

The results, published in the new study titled From Chaos to Compliance<\/a><\/strong> (PDF), are hardly surprising, but still, they paint a shocking portrait of New York City streets:
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