Archive for May 26th, 2005

Seattle’s so-called plan for “pedestrian safety”

Seattle Times article about Seattle’s plans
The good:
The effort includes public-service announcements on television and radio, repainted crosswalks, billboards and signs encouraging safe driving, and stepped up enforcement of pedestrian-safety laws.
The really, obscenely bad:
The city also will start installing traffic cameras to photograph cars that run red lights.
I won’t go in to the whole “anti-red light [...]