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"Sorry I ran over your grandma, but I didn't want to spill my latte." Plenty of motorists in San Francisco have this kind of attitude, and it must me stopped! Equally deadly is the pedestrian ego that says, "I always have the right of way." These two airs are a match made in hell. Our city has the fourth highest number of pedestrian fatalities in the US. Knells rang for 31 of these deaths in San Francisco last year! I do recognize the fact that the motorist is not always the party at fault in all of these accidents, but it is indisputable that many of our roaring intersections are way too dangerous for life forms on foot. Even though I usually scamper across the street only on a full walk signal, I still feel like I'm putting my life on the line to get to my favorite latte joint. Furthermore, I nearly got flattened by a car on Folsom and Eighth just a few nights ago. That would have been tragic, since I still haven't seen the Great Pyramids, I still haven't had anal sex, and I still haven't launched my six-figure discrimination suit against my vile ex-employer!
The city is trying some new civil engineering to turn these statistics around. The traffic commission has installed countdown timers on many pedestrian signals, finally giving us an "intersection life expectancy" that's measured in seconds. Now here's a message to SF pedestrians: All we need to do is use this system and heed the heads-up from these indicators! Some of these timers have been around for well over a year, and we still have that dizzying fatality rate. When the countdown has dropped below 10, DO NOT CROSS! Get a clue and wait for the next countdown. I've lost count of how many times I've seen school children dart out into a big intersection then get stuck in the meridian while trucks, SUVs, and buses whiz by.
Residents and community groups are organizing awareness efforts to curb these accidents by targeting the habits of both pedestrians and drivers, which will be the key to getting our city off of that horrible top ten list! In fact, the ped-death tolls of many other US cities trail ours very closely, so over time, we could easily become one of the safer American destinations for residents and tourists who take to the streets.
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Re: Too Many Pedestrian Deaths, Mayor Newsom!
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by anonymous |
posted July 28th, 2004 around 03:13 AM
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this site is nuts... i went on internet loking for the history of jelly bellies and how they are manufactures. is it in here somewhere? why was i sent here?
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sour brat
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by anonymous |
posted July 27th, 2004 around 04:11 PM
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huh?
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Re: Too Many Pedestrian Deaths, Mayor Newsom!
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by anonymous |
posted July 27th, 2004 around 12:01 AM
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danny boy , my darling, don't die until you've cooked for me your famous sourbrat or whatever that is that you make! xoxo
jscott
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