Your taxes at work: $56,000,000 in SF

[KnottedYet]

http://sf.streetsblog.org/2011/08/08/surgeons-exhaustive-research-helps-shape-sf-pedestrian-safetypolicies/

Car drivers splattering humans in San Francisco ALONE cost taxpayers $56,000,000 over five years.

Add 'em up across the country, and those f*ckers who drive like testosterone poisoned drunks cost us all a pretty penny!

(and 22% of all trauma cases in SF are people getting squashed by people driving cars... if car-driver related fatalities were a disease, Jerry Lewis would do a telethon... [I don't remember who said that])

[pll]

Interesting (wow). Thanks for posting. My favorite quote from the article:


Dicker [...] says she refuses to call crashes involving autos and pedestrians accidents because “an accident implies there is nothing we can do about it. Like it’s an act of god. But an injury or crash implies that there is something we can do to potentially reduce risk and prevent harm.”

[PscyclePath]

Little Rock was just rated as the 4th most dangerous city to try and be a pedestrian... http://autos.yahoo.com/news/15-dangerous-cities-for-driving.html and http://www.todaysthv.com/news/story.aspx?storyid=168526 .

One of our biggest problems is the network of freeways, beltways, and 4 to 6-lane arterial streets that wrap arounf the city, isolating communities. In most cases it can be a mile or more between places where pedestrians can cross these things. And as if to punctuate the story, we lost another one yesterday morning.

[Biciclista]

geez Pscyclepath, what a terrible picture you just painted.

[Melalvai]

I read that when 10% of people start to believe a thing it picks up enough momentum to become a majority opinion. Let's get that 10%.