[lbo-talk] is law enforcement a way to raise money for localeconomies?

[123hop at comcast.net]

Probably the most unsafe place in California is Berkeley, where 90% of the streets forbid vehicular traffic through the use of street barriers. This moves all vehicular traffic unto about four arteries, mostly two-lanes streets, which the 50,000 people driving to and from UC Berkeley are forced to use. This was done to make neighborhoods safe for kids to play. Want to guess how many kids play on the streets of Berkeley? 

Try None. 

Joanna 

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Thing is: they don't work. Basically, Vanderbilt draws on evidence from 
Europe and the States to show that, basically, the safer we think the 
streets are, the worse we drive. We think streets are safe when we do our 
due diligance to sign the hell out of it, install stop signs, traffic 
lights, lower speed limits, etc. All this shit that neighborhood activists 
want to slow traffic down and increase safety - the speed bumps, the 'deaf 
child area' signs, the sharrows, the bike lanes -- all become so much noise 
ignored by drivers.