Comments on: Hello, criminal!

By: Neighborhood tours « west north

Neighborhood tours « west north — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:23:10 +0000

[...] from Milwaukee writes that, on average, it’s drivers, not bicyclists, who are the scofflaw criminals on city streets: Get ready for a big shock, but the fact is that people riding bikes are more [...]

By: John

John — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:59:20 +0000

Of course more people sleep in beds than ride bicycles, so just looking at the total number of deaths doesn’t adequately compare the risks. It is funny though.

By: “Scofflaws?” Scoff. « west north

“Scofflaws?” Scoff. « west north — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:18:05 +0000

[...] by payton Something else, posted as comment on Chris Swope’s Urban Notebook, in the vein of several other [...]

By: Link dump « west north

Link dump « west north — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:28:23 +0000

[...] “an armistice” between cyclists and drivers. Valiant, but still seems a touch “car-headed,” considering he talked to a major ER’s chairman who said he’s seeing “more [...]

By: payton

payton — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:29:31 +0000

TheWashCycle has a great post on this topic. "Hello? Kettle? You're Black!" First off, drivers' compliance with stop signs is less than 50%. Then there's this story: "As a college professor told it to me, 'On a campus, campus planners laid out the sidewalk to a building in the shape of an L. Students ignored the sidewalk to walk along the hypotenuse wearing a path in the grass. The school planted hedges to "guide" them. Students cut a rut through them. The school put up a fence. Students climbed over it until the fence broke. Fed up, the school got an architect to design a fix. She tore up the old sidewalk and laid another new one along the path. Problem solved.' [...] The way to end jaybiking violations is to decriminalize them." Here's Lee Watkins' succinct way of summing up the history of traffic laws: "The purpose of all the traffic lights, signs, and lines - is to prevent CARS from running into everything else."