Dec 20, 2021·edited Dec 21, 2021Liked by Best Evidence
Thank you for posting the Grabar article. I currently live in a state (Jerz) where speed cameras are illegal, and in a city (Jersey City) where the PD has *no traffic enforcement division at all*. I've been an New Yorker my entire adult life, but it wasn't until I moved to a residential nabe near the Holland Tunnel that I found myself nearly being murdered by drivers on a regular basis, by drivers who YELL BACK when I yell at them. It's a level of driver entitlement I've never encountered before.
I'm not sorry that our cops don't do traffic stops, and there has been some street design work (they added a speedbump (and stops signs at intersections! Which we did not have before!)) but it's going to take a lot of will to build out the curbs or cobble anything. I was in Rome recently and loved how the cobbled, narrow streets forced careful driving and sharing the streets in the older parts of the city. I think cameras are probably the quickest way to effect change while the other stuff slogs along.
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Thank you for posting the Grabar article. I currently live in a state (Jerz) where speed cameras are illegal, and in a city (Jersey City) where the PD has *no traffic enforcement division at all*. I've been an New Yorker my entire adult life, but it wasn't until I moved to a residential nabe near the Holland Tunnel that I found myself nearly being murdered by drivers on a regular basis, by drivers who YELL BACK when I yell at them. It's a level of driver entitlement I've never encountered before.
I'm not sorry that our cops don't do traffic stops, and there has been some street design work (they added a speedbump (and stops signs at intersections! Which we did not have before!)) but it's going to take a lot of will to build out the curbs or cobble anything. I was in Rome recently and loved how the cobbled, narrow streets forced careful driving and sharing the streets in the older parts of the city. I think cameras are probably the quickest way to effect change while the other stuff slogs along.