We need to desperately change perceptions for traffic. Cars are the recurring factor in all crashes, and they can't be even near pedestrians. If that means they

We need to desperately change perceptions for traffic. Cars are the recurring factor in all crashes, and they can't be even near pedestrians. If that means they can't clog up the city center, then thats what we have to do. Just look at this statistic from NY for 2012: http://www.streetsblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/dmv1.jpg http://www.streetsblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/dmv1.j... 135 pedestrians killed. These are not people that suddenly collapsed and died, they died from intersections in the space-time continuum with cars. And nobody is being charged for these crashes, if you are not drunk or flee the scene, you can kill people with impunity (jumping the curb included). I highly recommend reading through http://www.streetsblog.org http://www.streetsblog.org for a few pages. Or try this article, it's a good summary of all that is wrong: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/01/nyregion/traffic-agent-fatally-struck-in-manhattan.html http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/01/nyregion/traffic-agent-fat...