Another Peloton clobbered by pickup truck, in AZ. 2 dead so far.
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One cannot ever call the road engineer negligent due to a user crashing from speeding. Because, as I said, it is not possible or desirable to build roads that cannot be sped upon.
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But that said, since you so sure of your claim, what would be negligent homicide if this isn't? Where is the threshold, if -- as you claim -- it is somewhere above driving through a peloton of cyclists at 50 mph, and not even touching the brakes until a quarter-mile down the road, while dragging at least one victim most of that distance? And then lying to investigators about the circumstances? All while high.
Arizona legislators wrote that negligent homicide law for a reason, so it must apply to some situation.
Explain what situation it could possibly apply to, if not this one.
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The district attorney understands what legally constitutes negligence (and what it takes to convict someone), whereas you want to apply your own definition. If you're unhappy with the existing laws, lobby to have them changed -- don't criticize the prosecutors that are operating within the rules of the present system.
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The West Valley Cycling Club (the club whose members were struck in this incident) were out in force at this morning's Tour De Cure held in the same area (but not using the roadway where the crash occurred). Good to see.
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The district attorney understands what legally constitutes negligence (and what it takes to convict someone), whereas you want to apply your own definition. If you're unhappy with the existing laws, lobby to have them changed -- don't criticize the prosecutors that are operating within the rules of the present system.
Again, I invite you to describe a scenario that would be negligent homicide and/or exactly what required evidence you believe is unavailable to the prosecutor in this case.
And, since you are clearly unaware, it's not that hard to convict on negligent homicide in Arizona: https://tucson.com/news/local/jury-c...05af697a3.html Almost the same circumstances as the Goodyear crash, except not involving cyclists, and only one victim -- who was well-connected, and therefore, the prosecutor could be arsed to do their job.
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Except for all the places globally that got safer to make driving safer on a global level. Which jives with the link you originally posted that you incorrectly used to infer that US driving had somehow become safer.
No, it does not -- for precisely the reason that I already explained, and which virtually everyone who uses statistics is already aware of. Please stop with this particular nonsense, as it is an embarrassing waste of time.
Again, make up your mind -- in just that brief pair of sentences, you claimed that there is both a lack of consequences and a greater frequency and severity of consequences. Sit down and have a think about what your argument actually is, before writing, next time.
The complete and total lack of enforcement efforts has removed all consequences (outcomes) from the common/insignificant consequences block (ie: traffic tickets) and owing to excessive speed and misuse of wide flat American road design has moved the negative outcomes towards the common/catastrophic block of the outcome matrix. We see this in the American traffic fatality data.
So yeah. There can be both no consequences for bad behaviour and catastrophic consequences in the form of fatality incidents. All incidents & potential incidents fit on the same matrix. It's a matter of where. You need not be so obtuse in your intentional misreading. I gave you apparently undeserved credit for being a competent, thinking person.
No, but to start with, you might want to understand that the plural of 'anecdote', is not data.
No, it does not. It specifically describes many of the ways in which Brussels is no longer similar to the US, in this area. And despite those changes, the country's road fatality rate is identical to the US.
Then you link an article that explains the 20-whatever divergence:
"At first gradually and then stunningly fast, Brussels’ transportation network has been reconfigured, shifting trips away from cars and toward bikes, transit and walking. The share of bike commuters has tripled in just four years, and transit ridership has already bounced back to pre-Covid levels. In 2017 cars accounted 64% of the miles traveled within the city; by 2021 the figure had fallen under 50%. Meanwhile, a huge pedestrian zone has emerged in the city center."
"If car-choked Brussels can transform itself in less than a generation..."
And that's just Brussels, for the record. Someone who visits as often as you claim to might be aware that Belgium is composed of more than just Brussels.
"If car-choked Brussels can transform itself in less than a generation..."
And that's just Brussels, for the record. Someone who visits as often as you claim to might be aware that Belgium is composed of more than just Brussels.
Great. This is what I want. This style and change to actual good road and street design, urban design, these planning models. This type of design yields lower traffic deaths than the now even worse and further along the divergent path that the US models have taken.
For the record: I don't claim to go to Brussels often. I claimed to go there once in 2019 at the tail end of the data period you site and before all the current changes that made an improvement in the pedestrian and traffic deaths.
The "good designs" to which you refer have no beneficial effect on safety, and this has been proven too many times to count by now. In every case, after wasting time, money, and lives attempting to build safety, municipalities have seen the failure, and changed tack. And the tack they always switch to, which does work, is increased law enforcement and decreased motor vehicle usage.
And, since you'll likely miss the point, if you can accomplish those two goals, there's nothing at all wrong with the US' infrastructure -- it will remain the world's gold standard. The US has 4 million miles of roads that are almost all perfectly suitable for any type of transport that is legal upon them -- the one and only problem is with the users of the infrastructure, and their misuse of it. And that cannot be designed-away, as is being seen in the Netherlands right just now.
No, it does not, because you are claiming that infrastructure can be built to completely prevent a driver from killing non-drivers. And, as I explained to you with a bunch of examples, that is impossible.
Furthermore, the incident in-question was not even urban, so you are displaying an embarrassingly-low level of familiarity with the discussion.
As I already explained, only one person is responsible for a motor vehicle being operated in a dangerous manner -- and that's the operator thereof.
For not the first time, attempt to keep your argument straight in your head, before setting your fingers loose on the keyboard. Having to repeatedly explain your own points to you is becoming tiresome. You very recently claimed:
So, I was forced to illustrate to you that all of the cities which you claim have done that "proper urban planning" have completely failed to prevent murderous felons from killing people with vehicles.
So, I was forced to illustrate to you that all of the cities which you claim have done that "proper urban planning" have completely failed to prevent murderous felons from killing people with vehicles.
Do you understand now, or do I need to use even smaller words?
Have a nice day.
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The complete and total lack of enforcement efforts has removed all consequences (outcomes) from the common/insignificant consequences block (ie: traffic tickets) and owing to excessive speed and misuse of wide flat American road design has moved the negative outcomes towards the common/catastrophic block of the outcome matrix. We see this in the American traffic fatality data.
So yeah. There can be both no consequences for bad behaviour and catastrophic consequences in the form of fatality incidents. All incidents & potential incidents fit on the same matrix. It's a matter of where. You need not be so obtuse in your intentional misreading. I gave you apparently undeserved credit for being a competent, thinking person.
Changes the US traffic designers and urban planners need to make. You are trying really hard to make me the enemy, here. You are coming at me as if I am some sort of establishment first, patriotic American fool. I assure you that is not the case. American road design killed the people in this peleton. Good road design would have prevented it.
A dangerous driver killed those people in Arizona. Not an engineer.
If the users can misuse a product then that product is poorly designed. It's one of those first principals sort of things. A big. problem is we have streets designed as roads and roads used as streets. This needs to change if America is to change the traffic and pedestrian death trend. Streets and roads are 2 different types of product with different use criteria. But if course, you already knew that.
Except for the places outside of America that do and have. All the places that top the list in pedestrian and traffic fatality reduction. Seriously, using examples of terrorism to make a point undermines whatever point you are trying to make. What next, Hitler did/used/liked "x" like the good ol' days of AOL? Grow up.
If you cannot understand that, you may want to discontinue here. Either way, you'll want to stop resorting to pathetic insult.
Finally, it reads.
Explain the precise difference between the Arizona killer and any of those European terrorists.
Runaway! Better luck next time -- but do your homework first.