PostFeb 21, 2023#751
NextSTL - It's not Kim Gardner; it's our toxic relationship with cars
https://nextstl.com/2023/02/its-not-kim ... with-cars/
https://nextstl.com/2023/02/its-not-kim ... with-cars/
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It’s Kim Gardner. Her office doesn’t know what victims are dead and alive. Ineptitude.
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Quin, I find that headline sensational and I think its beneath you to use this situation to advance the anti-car agenda, even though I'm on your side on that. I'm sometimes hyperbolic myself, but c'mon.
And you are forcing me to agree with whither, which is a twilight zone episode in it's own right.
And you are forcing me to agree with whither, which is a twilight zone episode in it's own right.
The headline is meant to be provocative, I'll give you that. Focusing on Kim Gardner is warranted in this acute situation. Focusing on Kim Gardner as the sole contributor to the dangerous conditions that resulted in this girl's maiming is myopic because the other factors that contributed to this also contribute to many other deaths and injuries irrespective of who is the CA.
City should release an RFQ for Crossing Guards or Flaggers downtown. A team of 40, full-time, $17-18 and hour. Give them marketable attire, train them with customer service, have them report out of Downtown STL office or Police HQ. Give them ability to communicate directly with police on repeat offenders or unsafe driving conditions.
40 heads x 40 hours per week x $17.50 an hour x 25% contract overhead + CAPEX = $2-3m annually.
Basically reinvent the downtown ambassador program that they stupidly canned in 2018.
40 heads x 40 hours per week x $17.50 an hour x 25% contract overhead + CAPEX = $2-3m annually.
Basically reinvent the downtown ambassador program that they stupidly canned in 2018.
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^ there are downtown guides now, and GSI is rolling out a downtown security team with a $1.35M fed grant
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Why Two States Remain Holdouts on Distracted Driving Laws
https://khn.org/news/article/distracted-driving-state-laws-two-holdouts-missouri-montana/
https://khn.org/news/article/distracted-driving-state-laws-two-holdouts-missouri-montana/
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There are guides now? I never see them. They used to be a fairly constant presence.
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Yes, they have bikes and wear yellow uniforms with GUIDE on the back
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When will that entire clusterF of an intersection be redone??
Redoing this intersection has got to be cheaper than the damage these crashes do.
Stltoday - Four killed, four injured in vehicle crash early Sunday at South Grand Boulevard and Forest Park Parkway
Stltoday - Four killed, four injured in vehicle crash early Sunday at South Grand Boulevard and Forest Park Parkway
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/fou ... 36a04.htmlour people are dead after their car crashed with another, ran off an overpass and landed upside-down at South Grand Boulevard and Forest Park Parkway early Sunday morning.
Four others were injured.
StlToday - Man killed, another injured in Saturday afternoon crash in Bevo Mill neighborhood
https://www.stltoday.com/news/man-kille ... 1806b.htmlPolice said that an electric signal on the southeast corner of eastbound Bates was turned facing southward traffic on Morganford.
Went on a long run yesterday, CWE-Downtown-Soulard-Tower Grove-CWE and almost got run over twice by drivers not stopping at stop signs while I was on the crosswalk. Both times I also got yelled at by said drivers.
On a related note, I have noticed that drivers in St. Louis never stop at crosswalks unless there is a stop sign or traffic light. It's kind of sad to see pedestrians trying to cross South Grand - many of those crosswalks are effectively useless.
On a related note, I have noticed that drivers in St. Louis never stop at crosswalks unless there is a stop sign or traffic light. It's kind of sad to see pedestrians trying to cross South Grand - many of those crosswalks are effectively useless.
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This Bevo crash is far worse than the downtown one last week, people’s obsession with Gardner drove that coverage. The Bevo crash both drivers did nothing wrong and the city failed them, the light facing the wrong way was reported Wednesday
Post covid bad driving is bad countrywide but a tad bit worse here and part of it is covid and second is 2015 Missouri senate bill 5 to capped traffic ticket revenue for cities. There is a direct correlation between it and declining traffic stopskipfilet wrote: ↑Feb 26, 2023Went on a long run yesterday, CWE-Downtown-Soulard-Tower Grove-CWE and almost got run over twice by drivers not stopping at stop signs while I was on the crosswalk. Both times I also got yelled at by said drivers.
On a related note, I have noticed that drivers in St. Louis never stop at crosswalks unless there is a stop sign or traffic light. It's kind of sad to see pedestrians trying to cross South Grand - many of those crosswalks are effectively useless.
We don't get public safety unless there's a profit motive? Besides the city was well below the cap before #Ferguson, 7% while they could got to 20% under SB5.
I would guess that the vast majority of accidents are caused by excessive speeding. Need to use the surpluses to fund significant road diets and pedestrian improvements throughout the city.
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Using 2019 data because it’s complete; In Missouri of the 900 roadway fatalities that yearflipz wrote: ↑Feb 27, 2023I would guess that the vast majority of accidents are caused by excessive speeding. Need to use the surpluses to fund significant road diets and pedestrian improvements throughout the city.
207 alcohol/drug
129 speeding
85 distracted driver 1
46 failed to yield.
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^Do they break down the alcohol/drug any? I'd expect a lot of those don't also involved speed and distraction, since one of the fundamental problems is impaired judgement, making people more likely to do stupid and dangerous things. Road diets won't solve everything, but even with people hell bent on destruction they could still help. More opportunities for drunken drivers to wreck their car on a curb or a planter before hitting another person seems like a win to me.
StlToday - Woman dies days after crash near downtown St. Louis
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/cri ... 8be13.html
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/cri ... 8be13.html
Even the dead can't have peace.
StlToday - ‘Crisis on our hands’: South St. Louis crash latest in string of traffic fatalities
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/acc ... d7bd5.html
StlToday - ‘Crisis on our hands’: South St. Louis crash latest in string of traffic fatalities
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/acc ... d7bd5.html