{"id":286973706,"date":"2014-02-04T10:55:06","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T10:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=286973706"},"modified":"2014-02-04T10:55:06","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T10:55:06","slug":"tom-vanderbilt-in-nyt-jaywalking-tickets-dont-make-streets-safer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=286973706","title":{"rendered":"Tom Vanderbilt in NYT: Jaywalking Tickets Don\u2019t Make Streets Safer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Tanya Snyder, Streets Blog<br \/>\nEnforcement of jaywalking doesn\u2019t improve pedestrian safety. So what will? Tom Vanderbilt, best-selling author of Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do, gave a succinct answer in a New York Times op-ed this weekend. Our cities will be safer to walk in when we have \u201cbetter walking infrastructure, slower car speeds and more pedestrians.\u201d<br \/>\nIt\u2019s that simple. Police departments in cities around the country \u2014 including, disappointingly, Bill de Blasio\u2019s New York \u2014 crack down on pedestrians who break the letter of the law even though, Vanderbilt says, \u201cmore pedestrians generally are killed in urban areas by cars violating their right of way than are rogue pedestrians violating vehicles\u2019 right of way.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nBut his larger point is indisputable: Blaming pedestrians for the destruction wrought by motorists is disastrously misguided. Drivers need to be held responsible for any crash they could have reasonably prevented, no matter what the pedestrian was doing. The fact that the most vulnerable and least destructive people on the streets are getting hefty fines from police is ludicrous. If we want to make our streets safer for people walking, we will design our streets to welcome and protect them.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dc.streetsblog.org\/2014\/02\/03\/tom-vanderbilt-in-nyt-jaywalking-tickets-dont-make-streets-safer\/\">https:\/\/dc.streetsblog.org\/2014\/02\/03\/tom-vanderbilt-in-nyt-jaywalking-tickets-dont-make-streets-safer\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Tanya Snyder, Streets Blog Enforcement of jaywalking doesn\u2019t improve pedestrian safety. So what will? Tom Vanderbilt, best-selling author of Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do, gave a succinct answer in a New York Times op-ed this weekend. Our cities will be safer to walk in when we have \u201cbetter walking infrastructure, slower &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=286973706\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tom Vanderbilt in NYT: Jaywalking Tickets Don\u2019t Make Streets Safer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286973706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286973706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=286973706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286973706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286973706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286973706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286973706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}