Gothamist: Weekend's Toll: Vehicles Kill 3 Pedestrians, Injure 4

pedestrian

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:58:29 -0500

"hey, is that Will Ferrell.. NW of center in the photo" with the paper hand hiding the face?

akrnyc

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:25:03 -0500

What happened to the yellow light?? Are you blind too?? No, i'm a pedestrian, not a driver. I just notice the flashing lights before making my decision to cross or not. damn, people are really rude around here...

dee dee deeeeeee

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:49:49 -0500

a green light changing red (it was actually red) What happened to the yellow light?? Are you blind too??

akrnyc

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:24:14 -0500

Saw a truck with a tractor attached through it speed through a green light changing red (it was actually red) at 23rd and 7th avenue, half a block from a Center for the Blind, an intersection where many blind/elderly folks are crossing. There must be a crackdown on these speeding cars, especially trucks.

adam

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:56:06 -0500

hey, is that Will Ferrell.. NW of center in the photo

The Edge

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:12:14 -0500

Or, perhaps, if a good portion of native New Yorkers and cabbies would stop driving like assholes... There's absolutely no sound reason why these people HAVE to squeeze into EVERY single space. There's absolutely no sound reason why these people HAVE to get "one car ahead" so they'll get stuck in traffic faster. There's absolutely no sound reason why these people HAVE to have monstrous SUV/pickup trucks... when they don't even work in professions that would require you to own something like that.

Bkr

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:06:00 -0500

You're absolutely right, Road Rage. It's outrageous . This is partly or mostly caused by a 50's era transportation policy focused on squeezing into and moving through the city as many private cars per hour as possible. While major international cities like Paris, London Berlin, etc. started curbing private motor traffic decades ago, NYC is still to this day and age hopelessly stuck on a "holy car" culture. It would be so easy and cheap to change this and make our streets safer and friendlier to users other than cars..

Road Rage

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 09:54:44 -0500

Drivers have a responsibility to watch for and not hit those who may chose to take an unnecessary risk and jaywalk, like it or not.

DOT

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 09:35:04 -0500

taking further steps to make the streets as safe as possible. The streets are safe. Pedestrians should be walking on the sidewalks as intended and only cross at crosswalks as intended.

not a jaywalker

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 09:32:13 -0500

Accident? Yes. An avoidable one? Definitely. It would've been avoidable has she not been jaywalking.

la laws

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 09:23:40 -0500

Why would a 71 year old jaywalk? unless she had a deathwish. I rarely, if ever, seen an elderly person not cross at the crosswalk.

Road Rage

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 09:14:49 -0500

Here's a thought. Pedestrians are being run down so often in NYC because careless, angry drivers who don't want to wait for the elderly or others to jaywalk in front of them, especially when they have a green light(as in the UES case) miscalculate their ability to continue on their anger fueled way while maneuvering around these obstacles. Accident? Yes. An avoidable one? Definitely.