Thursday, November 6, 2014

Cops 1, Vision Zero: Why Even Bother?

New York City used to be a tough town, what with its finger-snapping thugs, knife-wielding hooligans, and sexy mermaids dropping in unannounced at tourist attractions.

Now, though, the most dangerous thing you can do in 21st century New York is attempt to cross the streets, because our intersections are designed to kill pedestrians:


It turns out that being in the crosswalk can be a very dangerous place. WNYC has analyzed the last four years of traffic crash data in New York and found that the most common location for pedestrians to die is in a crosswalk, with the light. That's when turning vehicles are supposed to yield. When they don't, it can be deadly.

Basically, the way it works is that the light turns green, and then the drivers and pedestrians are both supposed to go at the same time--but the turning drivers are supposed to yield to the pedestrians, you know, just because.  Who the fuck thought this system was a good idea?  This is why, despite Internet rants about suicidal jaywalkers ("jaywalking" of course being a construct created by The Man in order to keep us down), the best way to get run over is crossing exactly when and how you're supposed to:


As for the second-best way, "crossing where there is no signal or crosswalk," keep in mind that in many circumstances that is perfectly legal too.

But now things are finally going to change, thanks to something called "Vision Zero," and part of this bold new initiative involves reducing the default speed limit in New York City to 25mph.  Unfortunately, to nobody's surprise, the NYPD have made it pretty clear they're not going to enforce it:


Thomas Chan, chief of the NYPD’s Transportation Bureau, said cops would focus on real speedsters rather than drivers going 1 mph over the new limit after it takes effect Nov. 7.

“This is going to be all about discretion,” he said. “We hope that we don’t have to issue the summonses, but . . . the officers, the NYPD will be prepared to enforce the new speed limit.”

So yeah, drivers, basically continue doing what you've already been doing, which is whatever the hell you want.

But don't worry, cyclists will still be ticketed:

Officials also said the city has cracked down on reckless bicycling, as cyclist fatalities have doubled this year and two pedestrians have been killed by bikes.

“We’re very disheartened with what’s happened on the bicyclist front,” said Polly Trottenberg, commissioner of the city Department of Transportation.

More than 4,300 bicyclists have been hit with summonses this year, for violations like riding on the sidewalk and riding the wrong way.

Wow.  Two pedestrians have been killed by bikes?  I'm pretty sure at least five pedestrians have been killed by drivers in the last week.

Fortunately for nobody, there have been tremendous innovations in the field of penalizing cyclists, and the most recent great leap forward has been arbitrarily penalizing them for riding safely while they're breaking no laws:


Brian McQuillen was riding a Citi Bike down Fifth Avenue near 42nd Street yesterday afternoon when a policeman ordered him and two other cyclists to pull over. The officer told them they were guilty of biking on the left side of the street, which in New York City, is not a crime.

"The officer said there had been a lot of cycling accidents recently, and that he was doing this for my safety," McQuillen says. "My safety? And you're telling me to ride in the bus-only lane?"

This is an unusually hearty "fuck you" to cyclists even by NYPD standards, since any seasoned New York City cyclist knows it's usually much safer to ride on the left side of a one-way street.  The reason for this is that you're less likely to get doored there, since all cars have drivers but not all cars have passengers.  (Though you should still beware of right-hand drive cars driven by foppish college professors.)

Now though you can apparently get a ticket for riding on the left side, at least until they decide to start ticketing you for riding on the right side, and naturally the middle of the street will be totally off-limits, and eventually anybody with any sense will conclude, "Fuck that, I'm leasing a Hyundai."

So I'm asking, please, "Bicycing" magazine, for the love of [insert deity of your choice], would you please retract that fucking award already?



Meanwhile, the auto industry is very bitter, because despite their best marketing efforts these so-called "millennials" don't wanna buy cars:


In 2009, Ford brought its new supermini, the Fiesta, over from Europe in a brave attempt to attract the attention of young Americans. It passed out 100 of the cars to influential bloggers for a free six-month test-drive, with just one condition: document your experience online, whether you love the Fiesta or hate it.

I have only one question for the Ford Motor Company, which is WHY THE FUCK DIDN'T I GET A CAR???

Needless to say, appealing to a bunch of bloggers didn't work, and those goddamn ingrates still won't buy:

Don’t blame Ford. The company is trying to solve a puzzle that’s bewildering every automaker in America: How do you sell cars to Millennials (a k a Generation Y)? The fact is, today’s young people simply don’t drive like their predecessors did. In 2010, adults between the ages of 21 and 34 bought just 27 percent of all new vehicles sold in America, down from the peak of 38 percent in 1985. Miles driven are down, too. Even the proportion of teenagers with a license fell, by 28 percent, between 1998 and 2008.

You can imagine the heated discussions in those boardrooms.  "We singlehandedly created the concept of jaywalking to clear the streets for cars, we cleared entire neighborhoods to make way for expressways, it's virtually impossible to get in trouble for running somebody down and killing them, thanks to all this new technology you can basically be brain dead now and still be able to drive...I mean WHAT MORE DO THEY WANT FROM US FOR FUCK'S SAKE???"

As for the reason millennials don't want cars, there are plenty of theories: crippling student loans, increasing tendency to remain in urban centers, the rise of car sharing...but everybody knows the real reason is Mikael Colville-Andersen, who with a bold tweet recently laid claim to the entire concept of blogging about urban cycling:
Now that's audacity.

First of all, everybody knows that the first modern urban cycling advocate in the world was David Byrne:


("I was not owning a car before you were even born.")

Secondly, I'm pretty sure that in 2007 there was already a lot going on in the field of blogging about urban cycling.  I mean, sure, my blog didn't exist until 2007, but Streetsblog started in 2006, BikePortland started in 2005, and according to someone on Twitter the Transportation Alternatives website has been around since 1996.  1996!  It still took like 15 minutes to download a single pornographic image in 1996.  In fact, that's all the Internet was in 1996--porn, Sheldon Brown, and the Transportation Alternatives website.

I'm also tempted to say there were people advocating for urban cycling even before the Internet, but I'll refrain from doing so until I see some hard scientific evidence.

So sure, Mikael Colville-Andersen invented urban cycling advocacy.  But there's a more important question facing humanity now, and it is this:

Who invented the World's Fastest-Drying Dress Shirt?

Well, I'm pleased to announce that I've found an answer, and it's TAHAANGA, that's who!





Nice shirt and all, but what's up with fucking Hee Haw the Barista?



Nice hat.  Wonder how fast it dries.



134 comments:

samh said...

AYHSMB

Spokey said...

well at least 2

babble on said...

Woot! Good day! Bless those millenials!

wishiwasmerckx said...

Podium?

Anonymous said...

Podio?

wishiwasmerckx said...

Damn, but if you are going to lose, it may as well be to BabbleOn.

As many before me have observed, there is nothing wrong with being under BabbleOn.

top ten said...

NYC bikes only

Anonymous said...

top whatever

samh said...

I had to go see for myself since I don't follow him, but Colville-Andersen really did in fact tweet that. Wow, that's some smug shit right there!

babble on said...

Today's was the most strangely dangerous commute I have ever known. There I was, minding my own business and swimming along in the rivers we call streets here, (as you do) when BOOM Krack-a-Lacka the sky shouted out at the very same moment a WALL of water pummeled me from the cars speeding by on the Burrard Bridge deck. I nearly fell off my bike in shock and surprise.
I could do with the world's fastest drying knickers today, cause despite my great rain gear, I am wet to the bone.

Um, and I'm sorry, but doesn't being a lone urban commuter in a wasteland of tarsands extracting Albertans waaaaay back in the day make me an old urban cycling advocate, too?

Oy vey. What a day...

babble on said...

ps - XX - cheers, vsk!

I am always happy to ride on top! :D

Hee Haw the Barista said...

They make me wear this stupid hat, don't make fun of me man.

The King of Park Slope said...

Clearly the Joads are fleeing the dustbowl, making their way to either coast, working as exploited whitetrash labourers in coffee bean orchards, to reach their dream of successful baristadom.

Creepy Guy said...

Say Babs, let me dry yur knickers

grog said...

15.HeeHaw

le Correcteur said...

Yeah, top twenty, even with a leisurely read.

Where is everybody?

Serial Retrogrouch said...

toppes tenus

Anonymous said...

vsk said ...

NoDio again!
All I can do is read it now...

vsk

Serial Retrogrouch said...

not a chansus

Joe K. said...

If only we could make their grandparents die earlier so that millennials would stop getting free cars when they leave college...

crosspalms said...

Walked out to get lunch yesterday, waited at a light, stepped into the crosswalk when I got the signal and was nearly flattened by a guy who turned right ONTO A ONE-WAY STREET GOING THE WRONG WAY. He made it about 50 feet before making a U-turn through traffic.

Vehicles dodged in protected bike lane yesterday: cab, armored car, city cherry-picker truck.

crosspalms said...

Oh, and Ford? You're in the transportation business. Bicycles are transportation. Think about it.

BikeSnobNYC said...

PotbellyJoe,

Holy crap, that's it!

Though to their credit, with Buick, GM did design an almost hand-me-down-proof grandparent car...

--Wildcat Rock Machine

Comment deleted said...

"We are dismayed that bicyclists continue to get themselves killed on cars. The property damage alone is very discouraging."

Spokey said...

remember it is $250 PLUS property damage

il Pirata est Mort said...

In a bazillion rides to the Battery the closest I came to seeing a sea emering blonde was the wind blowing up the skirt of a pay-by-the-dance Lady Liberty. That and maybe the time I saw two transvestite hookers getting ready for work over by Chelsea Piers.

Anonymous said...

vsk said ...

Yay !! I got Snobbed by Ms. Babble! I am not worthy! I won't wash this screen again!

Feeling closer to my own mortality... we are getting a new 25 mph speed limit for my birthday!! Who will I be able to motorpace now?? Maybe the motorcycles will suck on my rear wheel?? [Dang this bicycle guy can go that slow and remain upright?]

Was somehow reminded of my ride to Montauk in 2006 with my old boss Kelley. I was like "hey we're going downhill, put it in the big chainring and we'll go faster." She says "it's too fast, I'm scared!". Now one of the resonating things about this is she was a try-athalete at one time. Maybe she was feeling too old to fall at speed.
She was as Anthony Hannibal Lecter Hopkins would say a "big girl". But inside her, there was an inner Babbleness as she would be chasing us out of the rest stops with vigor (I didn't think she'd make it past Queens). I was like "It's a rest stop ... I wanna rest!!".
We made it - 140 miles in 12 hours (didn't do the extra 5 miles, it looked like rain). We were riding with a recumbent guy we met. His rain gear was tied low to the bike and looked like balls swinging with the pedaling of the machine.

I am old, I chose to massively transport myself in the rain via R and D train.

Vlad's pix link yesterday was cool.

vsk





Bryan said...

I'm not committed enough to go car free. Living out in the burbs and all, I drive too much. I am regretting not riding my bike to work today. It turned out to be a wonderful day outside.

mikeweb said...

Never bad when there's a Sheldon Brown mention.

Anonymous said...

Aren't nearly all of the bike lanes on the left side of the street?

RB1 said...

'' In fact, that's all the Internet was in 1996--porn, Sheldon Brown, and the Transportation Alternatives website. ''

don't forget alt.culture.electric-midget

Dan said...

Have these guys ever heard of a fucking undershirt? Jesus!

Anonymous said...

I'm more of a Ballantine man myself, strange his lack of presence on the internets be (him being dead now is a factor, I suppose). A local boy, too, Kingston and all.

Mikael Colville-Andersen said...

I was living in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA in 2007. Being the only bicycle rider in town that could afford both a computer and internet connection, I was the lone voice in the urban cycling desert. In 2009, a cyclist in Dubai went online to be #2.

Farvel!
MCA

badcomputer_29347 said...

reckless bicycling

That's the name of my new alt-hiphop-rock band. Thank you NYC public servants!

I've re-worked Body Count's "There Goes the Neighborhood" into a bicyclist's anthem. It's brilliant. That's the set closer.

##########
Those youngsters simply can't afford cars or houses working service sector jobs.

If they've made it out of the service sector ghetto, well, who in their right mind thinks they'll have a job long enough to reliably pay a mortgage? Their wages barely support owning a house anyway.

###
Can I sue that copenhagenize douche? Plenty of efforts by the bike industry, as well as my own in my own fair city, predate his douche baggery.

Go 'merica! Now with more guns!

rural 14 said...

Rural 1st!
Top 36! Personal best

samh said...

All hail the master, @mikeweb. May Sheldon rest in peace yet continue to educate and inform aspiring wrenchers the world over for all of eternity.

rural 14 said...

and for sure...not yielding to pedestrians...welcome to New York, now get [the fuck] out.

I yield to pedestrians on my bike when I'm in NY and cars behind me lay on the horn.

How about educating drivers to yield...but also pedestrians to make eye contact with drivers. My 8 year old knows to make sure to look at the driver before stepping into the crosswalk. In NYC - headphones or talking on the phone / giving the 1 finger salute don't work too good.

In this rural place, we know when it's NYer season, because one has to leap out of the way in the crosswalk instead of the usual New England crosswalk eye check-in. Fuckers running us over to get to their weekend houses.

Where's Rodney King when you need him?

Bryan said...

When one of our cars eventually goes, I don't know exactly how we will afford one, what with the wife's student loans essentially being a car payment already. Crippling loans are real. At least ours aren't as bad as some, and really a mortgage is cheaper than a rental of a similar sized house.

Yeah Cleveland! said...

Manwella needs to "sines zee paper old man."

ouabacher said...

I once sat in a new Buick on the lot. It smelled like old people....must come built right in!

The robot just posted a pic of my front door! He must get em from that damn street view car.

Comment deleted said...

oubacher, the robot is telling you it knows where you live. Think about that next time you decline a Google+ invite.

badcomputer_29347 said...

Mikael Colville-Andersen,

You are an idiot. You invented nothing and were not the lone voice of anything.

Nobody ever was addressing bicycle transit issues in the U.S. until you came along. Oh, wait, yes they were and have been since, well, the introduction of cars.

A hearty FU to you from everyone that's worked bicycling access issues in their locale since forever. Me included.

Your feeble attempt at brand building is a fail. Maybe a collabo with the League of American Bicyclists is just what your brand needs? They won't take your call? Hmm. I wonder why..

Go 'merica!

Joe K. said...

As someone who has a career in statistics I hate politicians. They pay me well, but I hate them.

To stand there straight-faced and deliver the, "Officials also said the city has cracked down on reckless bicycling, as cyclist fatalities have doubled this year and two pedestrians have been killed by bikes." Should be a red-flag, public challenge.

Doubled from what? How many more cyclist-miles are there? Basically if cyclists tripled the number of miles they rode, but there was only a 50% increase in injuries, the roads are then safer. But the politicians will scream that injuries went up.

This is why murder rates are more important than murders. Homicides per 100,000 people gives context.

How many deaths of cyclists per 1,000 miles ridden versus Car deaths, etc.

It sucks to understand stats.

Freddy Murcks said...

The Hee Haw barista is in fact an extra from the television program Green Acres. It's been a lean few years (since the show was canceled in like 1970), so he's been doing the barista thing to make ends meet.

By the way, Snob, did you happen to notice how good the coffee was when you visited Italy and how cheap it is - a damn cappuccino costs one measly, stinkin Euro and it's roughly 2000 times better than the absolute fucking dreck that Charbucks charges $4.50 for. I have theories on why it's so much better in Italy, but one of the things I noticed is a complete lack of stoned college kids making and serving coffee. It's like it's a career that fathers pass on to their sons.

PCM said...

It's actually permitted to bike on the left side of 5th ave:

§ 4-12 (p) – Bicyclists may use either side of a 40-foot wide one-way roadway.

Spokey said...

i thought the first traffic laws were in NYC and dealt with bicycles vs peds vs horses or something like that back in the 1890s or so.


robot is a disagreeable dstarcon today

Spokey said...

joe

normally you come off a standard deviate. But your regression today show you to be just mean.



ok i'll just run rugget now

Neil said...

That mortality stat is ridiculous. Of course the highest proportion of pedestrian deaths occur in the crosswalk, crossing with the light...that's where the pedestrians are, and that's when most of them cross. Still it's useful to know that cars pose a greater risk than falling air conditioners.

recumbent conspiracy theorist said...

That Rodney Dangerfield was a cad. Thanks for that. Raining today in the flyover. I drove the car I do own.

Comment deleted said...

The amount of statistics that are completely fabricated rose by 32.4 percent last year.

Anonymous said...

My brother is 54 years old and has never purchased a car.
My father keeps giving him his old cars so he has been driving a Buick Century and Park Avenue the past ten years.
Never had a car payment. 'Course, he's never had a girlfriend either.

BikeSnobNYC said...

Neil,

It's not ridiculous at all. People tend to blame the victim and there's a common misconception that if you get hit by a car it's your fault. This shows that often not the case and that our intersections are unsafe for pedestrians. Pretty simple, they're not trying to put one over on you.

--Wildcat Rock Machine

Joe K. said...

Neil,

To piggyback on what Snobi Wan said, All it proves is that this BS of cars/drivers saying that it was someone else's fault, is not even half right.

McFly said...

Q: What's the difference in a shittily dressed cyclist on a tricycle and a well-dressed cyclist on a bicycle?

A: Attire

Anonymous said...

vsk said ...

Plus dead victims have a hard time speaking for themselves.

Where's my Fly6 and FlyFront black box cams?

Actually an all seeing eyeball drone following me on my commute and getting gnarly footage would be cool as well.

vsk

409

Edward said...

Great post today man but now I'm feeling irate and more disheartened. All the more so knowing I have to go to court for rolling through a stop sign at 3 mph last week. After ten years I'm about to quit this city, it's fallen behind.

Anonymous said...

NYC and good bikey-ing : AT LEAST IT'S FLAT!!

i think
isn;t it?

isn;t flat ''friendly''?

maybe that is what they meant


this author contented with posting his deletion

JB said...

Neal typed: "That mortality stat is ridiculous. Of course the highest proportion of pedestrian deaths occur in the crosswalk, crossing with the light...that's where the pedestrians are, and that's when most of them cross."

The stat debunks the "he just darted in front of me, there's no way I could have stopped" no-criminality-suspected argument.

Anonymous said...

Tilford did a charity ride the Herr Armstrong the Hated.

Anonymous said...

with

Anonymous said...

I have nothing.
Why do you have pedestrians legally in a crosswalk, while cars are turning legally into a crosswalk? I know about right turn on red and all that, but in heavy use areas NYC, for example, there should be no turn as long as there is a pedestrian green.
Or move the crosswalk to the middle of the block.
Ludicrous, I know.
I'm just a Joad from flyover country.

JLRB said...

It is hard to read this with zero vision

Joe K. said...

Just wait for the next mayoral election, Vision Bubble Wrap.

"He was injured in a crosswalk? Was he wearing bubble wrap? no? Well that's the consequences of his decision."

badcomputer_29347 said...

there's a common misconception that if you get hit by a car it's your fault.

Which, drivers collectively use to full effect essentially insulating themselves from the guilt of killing many people annually with cars.

The result is there's no shared guilt when one driver kills/maims. But, if a cyclist kills/maims, the whole community assumes some guilt and accepts the scorn from others.

I'd rather cyclists stop having that shared responsibility and act more like car drivers.

JLRB said...

I'd rather the opposite - that car drivers share in the guilt, (or at lest that there be some guilt), and learn to act more responsibly.

Spokey said...

i'd rather we stop worrying about guilt, whose guilty, sharing guilt etc and put more effort in to everyone be able to venture out in to the man streets safely.

dop said...

She was only the stableman's daughter, but all the horsemen knew'r

dop said...

and you thought the triple entendre was Britain, France & Russia

McFly said...

I read somewhere that on days when the Statue of Liberty's arm is raised motorists are allowed to carry speeds up to 40-50 mph on side steeets.

Olle Nilsson said...

So when The Onion rejects your story you submit it to The New York Post. It all makes sense now.

Anonymous said...



Dropping your guard today, Snobbie.


Ford was looking for INFLUENTIAL bloggers, not influential bloviators. :)

Secondly, it's preposterous to assume urban bicycle advocacy is nothing more than modern whining from disenfranchised millenials, than a movement with any history.

babble on said...

So, in some parts of the world, it's illegal to turn right on a red. What a concept...

MCA- I dunno. I feel like I must be one of the original cycling advocates, because I have been trying to convince people to get off their fat asses and onto bicycles for decades now - I just didn't bother to put it online. But at least you are doing your level best to improve infrastructure for cyclists across the world, and like ol' Snobi Wan here, your voice is definitely heard. Not bad for a good ol' boy from Alberta. I don't know how anyone can claim to be the original advocate, but every effort counts, and you have definitely done more than any of the rest of us here on this comment board, so thanks for that. I hope you add your voice to the 4th World Bicycle Forum in columbia early next year.

dop said...

It's illegal to turn right on red in NYC*, which tends to drive the out of towners crazy




* except in a few specially marked intersections...the southbound off ramp at exit 9 on the Major Deegan onto Kingsbridge is the only one I've encountered

Glory said...

PotbellyJoe at 1:31 said it.

babble on said...

Today a driver sped past me and then tried to kill me turning right in front of me at a ridiculous rate of speed... so I guess making it illegal to turn right on a red wouldn't have made one whit of difference.

I don't get it. What is it that fuels our collective madness?

Olle Nilsson said...

You have to understand Coleville-Andersen's perspective. Everyone around him is saying "chillax dude, you're in cycling nirvana. It's cool". Of course he was the only one in Copenhagen complaining.

Olle Nilsson said...

... heck, bike parking probably wasn't even an issue back in '07.

dop said...

I don't have the reference Babble, but the Right-Turn-In-Front-of-the-Bike is the most common fatal scenario for cyclists
(left turn in the uk)

Joe K. said...

http://bikeleague.org/sites/default/files/EBC_report_final.pdf

40% of fatal accidents were bikes hit from behind. 6% were the right hook.

These are fatal accidents, not reported accidents, so you have to keep injuries separate from this.

dop said...

there goes my credibility...right down the toilet



why do you think they call it dop

dop said...

did looging on to bsnyc lead to this popup ad?

sloolife..

biking is not racing? cycling can be feminine?

wishiwasmerckx said...

I was driving home from work yesterday in the car that I own, still lamenting the absolute shellacking that the Democrats endured at the national, state and local level, when "Life During Wartime" by the Talking Heads came on.

Notwithstanding the fact that David Byrne is a favorite pincushion on this blog, his words rang true about the dystopian future ahead of us shortly.

Spokey said...

dop

welcome to the club

there ought to be law against posting real facts in the commentary.


seems like this is a sacrament ewsurfa

All the News Fit to Stare At said...

Hey, if Crank Ccyle Babe, in her bikini, were to ride her bike in NYC you better believe that every cop who lays eyes on her chest would stop her for investigative purposes. Gad Zooks, she could feed a regiment.

Angry Beaver in Miramichi said...

BABBLE at 11:58 "I am wet to the bone." If you were wet to the bone from head to toe, I sure hope you took a selfie to put up on your website. A guy can always hope.

Anonymous said...

vsk said ...

So where the hell are Road Queen and Fred of the Sea?

Just sayin' . . .

vsk

Spokey said...

good question

better question: where the hell is my icy blue cap? Shipped in Oct & it's Nov 6 dag nabbit

Comment deleted said...

Fred Del Mar kind of lost his shit over Snob's Italy trip. It's a shame; he was a witty dude.

Eurodude said...

As for urban cycling advocacy, i´ve got a 1979:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allgemeiner_Deutscher_Fahrrad-Club

Prost!

babble on said...

Angry beaver -nope, not today. I felt lucky enough to have a moment or two to read ol Snobi Wan here... there are only so many spare moments in a day! BUT a lovely fan sent a wicked pair of black leather boots which arrived this morning, and then after a short day at work, I upgraded from and iphone to an HTC One, (hooray!) and so I plan to use its superior camera to take a couple of selfies of these legs in said boots in just a moment...

wishiwasmerckx said...

I'm not sure about this gay marriage stuff. I read on the internets today that every time men engage in homosexual behavior, G-d punishes all mankind by releasing another Nickelback album.

bad boy of the north said...

don't forget to see the mutter museum in philly...sfter you see snobby.

millenirony said...

Driving requires you to take your eyes off your phone at least 25% of the time. I'd rather die.

semi serious cyclist said...

What's with Hee Haw barista?

Grunge went Grange shortly after Cobain couldn't take the music anymore. like in 1995. Grange kickstarted steampunk and got mistaken for authenticity by the bohemian (faux) artisans. Now, kids in Brooklyn wear coarse straws inside coffeeshops, for street cred? Ratso Rizzo would puke into it, after stealing it off the kid's head.

Grange.

David Pearce said...

Dear Snob, Snobbers,

It's just my humble, personal, opinion, but I don't think a policy named "Vision Zero" has a very good name. ......

Surely something like Vision 100% or something else than Vision Zero would be better? Or am I just old-fashioned, crusty, and curmudgeon-ish.

I have to go right now. I have another barrel of dynamite to hide in my rented vault under the U.S. Capitol at present. Can you guys keep an eye on each other while I'm gone? Good.

97 said...

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98 said...

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99 said...

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dop said...

forbidden right on red

dop said...

day late david

babble on said...

Great title, though, Cops 1, Vision Zero...

will ferrell said...

We love you Lance Armstrong

bad boy of the north said...

I meant.....after.stupid computer!

leroy said...

ride safe all!

(i know i usually say that on Fridays, but you can never be too careful.)

Tyler b Fullerton said...

First off: thank you so much for your top notch writing. Also, after living in NY for 4ish years I really love your vendetta against it being bicycling mags no. 1 city... Just pathletic "journalism" .

Biking to and from midtown every day I only had two run ins with cars (1 guy pulled to the curb, immediately stopped, which caused my hand to extend into his brake light, and 2 a gentleman in Brooklyn decided to pull into an open parking space through the bike lane and into me) but every second on midtown felt like death was a second away.

Just moved to LA and the biking in my opinion is so much safer.

Please keep it up, it's often laugh out loud funny and so precise.

Thanks so much!

Tyler b Fullerton said...

God dammit I forgot the reason I was initially going to post! One of my final straws with NYC was when the NYPD got me for $700 dollars for running two consecutive red lights.

The law states that the first offense was something like $200 (no difference between car and bike btw) and the next,within a year, is $500.... Obviously the intent is to curtail repeat offenders but that didn't stop greenpoin t's finest from following me long enough to build them up.

Oh- and during my court appearance I got to witness every single auto offense getting far less punitive pleasure. My favorite being the driver ticketed for $50 for GOING THE WRONG WAY DOWN A ONE WAY STREET! Her google maps told her to turn there....

I should say that the judge gave me the minimum.... $700.


Vlad said...

I think that Neil was saying that those statistics were ridiculous because they do not prove that street crossings are the most dangerous places. In order to prove that, you would have to calculate the relativ risk, i.e. the percentage of pedestrians killed, out of all pedestrians on the crossing.

So the flaw in that graph is that it may lead to the conclusion that crossings are more dangerous than jaywalking, which is an invalid conclusion from that comparison. But the point, as I perceived it, is that people die on the crossings also, and you can't relativize human lives.

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Snob, don't come down so hard on Copenhagenize. The guy is flying all over the world to advocate for low impact urban core infrastructure.

The reality that air travel door-to-door is the absolute antithesis of this goal is not to be dwelt on . . .

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Vlad, you don't need to data the shit out of this one. There is no expectation J-walkers will not be mowed down. There is one when crossing with the light in a crosswalk. Otherwise what's the point?

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So I'm asking, please, "Bicycing" magazine, for the love of [insert deity of your choice], would you please retract that fucking award already?

You Godsdamned monotheists!
ALL OF MY GODS WILL BE INSERTED!
THEIR ARE NO LIMITS TO THEIR POWER!

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"How do you sell cars to millenials?" Well, I don't know, perhaps the fact that it's a big deal on the national news when gasoline approaches falling below $3/gallon again has something to do with it. Yeah, when gas cost half that we drove more. An hour of work at minimum wage doesn't buy two gallons of gas anymore. It used to buy more than three.

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dear dop at 9:31 p.m.,

See yesterday's comments.

Guido

Unknown said...

No way did that guy hit the jump shot as shown in the video, and he is a lousy tennis player.

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Meaning, the fucking chickenshit NY Pig Dept. will NOT be enforcing the 25mph speed limit.

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