[tallpapab]

Sorry. That was one of the worst things I've read this week. The jumping to conclusions, the unstated assumptions. The gross misuse of statistics. I love the one about 44% of pedestrian accidents happen at traffic lights. I think it was Willie Sutton, the famous bank robber, who said he robbed banks because that's where the money was. If pedestrians cross in crosswalks that's where you're likely to hit them. Because that's where the pedestrians are. Oy! Don't get me started. It was seriously put forth a few years ago in Berkeley that all crosswalks in the city should be erased on the theory that pedestrians become "overconfident" in the crosswalks. The evidence given was that cars hit pedestrians mostly in the crosswalks. Luckily the traffic engineer who proposed this took a job in the suburbs.