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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are lots of incidents where people crash into buildings, and I think many of them turn out to be driver error -- mainly stepping on the gas instead of the brakes in a parking lot. This is why vision zero is dumb; you're never going to get down to zero pedestrian fatalities because drivers in this area are awful and make mistakes that have nothing to do with speed or road design. I think many incidents can probably be traced to cell phone use, but no one wants to bother enforcing laws against cell phone use, particularly in parking lots.[/quote]

But that's the whole point of vision zero, idiot---to redesign the roads and reduce the chances, and severity, of the should-be rare calamity like this. Instead of allowing wide city roads that allow predatory drivers like this guy driving way too fast on dense city streets and putting a bus into a restaurant.

Stuff like this happens way to often and it's because people like you make excuses for dangerous drivers. Wake up already.[/quote]

Hey Karen, the streets here are actually pretty safe. Accidents are extremely rare. That's why you see bicyclists on them with children. It's true that shit happens in the big city. People get mugged too. Maybe you should move if you're not ok with that. [/quote]
Are you a psy op to make DC liberals look deranged or something? We should be ok with getting mugged because we live in a city?[/quote]

Some things are unavoidable when you live in a city. [b]No one would propose a vision zero for muggings.[/b] The idea that we can prevent all traffic deaths is kinda nutty. Our government can't even clear the snow. [/quote]
No, but a saner city than DC would actually put muggers in jail and keep them there to face some kind of consequences. We don't do that. We let them out and they go right back to the streets to find their next mark. That guy who was groping housewives in Palisades a couple summers ago was ROR'd and then went right back to groping GW students in Foggy Bottom. Completely absurd. Nowhere else that I've lived would let a sexual abuser out of jail the same day.

That is the issue a lot of us have with traffic enforcement here. I grew up in Virginia Beach. If I got three speeding tickets in Virginia Beach, never appeared in court to contest them, never paid my fines (and one of those fines on the Ambar accident driver is nearly a year old), and continued to collect speeding tickets, my license would be suspended and I would eventually have a bench warrant out for my arrest. No other city allows this kind of mayhem on the roads. Virginia doesn't even allow Virginia drivers to act like this in Virginia, but we're supposed to allow Virginia and Maryland drivers to act like this in DC?[/quote]

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