On Monday 15 October 2007 15:49, PaddleWise wrote: > Funnily enough, most pedestrian accidents hear in Victoria happen at > crosswalks and controlled intersections. I never trust a single driver, > and alwayds do shoulder checks when walking across an intersection, > including standing back from the curb to allow for wide truch turns. > Well, I do all this when I'm not J-walking. :-) Okay, enough rambling. Some more rambling: Here to most pedestrians get killed on, or near, crosswalks, so the clever guys from the authority responsible have simply filed off most of them with some clever machine (some sort of gigantic router), thus decreased the accident rate further! The weird thing is that it seems to work! Those crosswalks that are left are now mostly combined with bumps, poles and other mechnical and optical means to slow the drivers down to a crawl. Works till a big Citrokn comes swishing through! Tord *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Oct 15 2007 - 14:33:51 PDT
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