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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Fri Jun 4 15:25:43 2021, in response to Re: Signal priority in NYC, posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Jun 4 09:53:53 2021. a crosswalk that is totally worn out...signage alerting drivers to a pedestrian crossing... better education....You keep confusing the goal with a single strategy for achieving the goal. The goal is to reduce pedestrian fatalities (and severe injuries) to close to zero. One strategy for achieving this goal is to eliminate vehicle/pedestrian collisions. Another strategy for achieving this goal is to make vehicle/pedestrian collisions less lethal. Which of these two strategies have the better chance for achieving the goal? If collision speed is reduced from 30 mph to 20 mph, the probability of a pedestrian fatality is reduced by 75%. That's from data compiled by the AAA Highway Safety Foundation, not Vision Zero zealots. It is the uninformed who believe that statistics tell the entire story. Doctors would still be practicing blood letting, were it not for the uninformed statisticians. |
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