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It's a perennial like "people will drive around holiday time". A lot
of it does not apply to Massachusetts, more to the South with its wide
pedestrian-eating boulevards that turn a daily stroll into a game of
Frogger.
Part of wh
Id like to see every drivers ed training include a practical with cyclists
and pedestrians grading new drivers.
On Sunday, November 27, 2022, John Mendelson
wrote:
> The Exceptionally American Problem of Rising Roadway Deaths
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> https://nyti.ms/3i6DS8Q
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*Stephanie Smoot*
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Like Woodward Avenue, Detroit. The first road made of concrete in the US. It’s
about 4 lanes wide in both directions, separated by an island. The idea was to
build the kind of roads that were grand avenues in 20th century cities. You see
that even in NYC as you go north.
> On Nov 27, 2022, at 4
Lincoln is not an island so decisions outside our borders affect behaviors
here as well. I cannot tell you how many times I've been buzzed by cars
going 40mph+ while walking down Tower Road or how often I am tailgated when
driving the speed limit or even 5-10mph over it.
I shared not so we could
…and in Colorado Springs, where grand avenues were built, not for cars, but for
buggies- to mimic Paris -wide enough for a horse and carriage to turn around
in.
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Sara Mattes
> On Nov 27, 2022, at 4:44 PM, Jennifer Saffran
> wrote:
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> Like Woodward Avenue, Detroit. The first road made
"U.S. had built: wide roads, even in city centers, that seemed to invite
speeding."
Not true in Lincoln.
Neither straight nor wide.
"What the U.S. can do to change this is obvious, advocates say: like outfitting
trucks with side underride guards to prevent people from being pulled
underneath
The Exceptionally American Problem of Rising Roadway Deaths
https://nyti.ms/3i6DS8Q
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