These San Franciscans blame pedestrians for traffic deaths
sfstandard.com
San Francisco’s Vision Zero data suggest that in recent years, motorists were at fault in most pedestrian deaths by car. Still, some readers think city safety measures do more to inconvenience drivers than to protect those on foot.

Daylighting, which involves removing parked cars from around crosswalks in order to improve visibility and just wiped out about 14,000 street parking spaces, has proved especially controversial.

“If someone doesn’t die because of it, we will never know, while the living have to suffer,” Nina Geneson Otis wrote in an email to The Standard. The real estate broker said daylighting is the kind of policy that makes Democrats lose elections.

Others say the city’s actions remove responsibility from pedestrians to look out for their own safety. “A pedestrian can do anything, and be irresponsible, and no harm will come to them?” Brandi said, describing the policies as “idiot-proof.”

  • @[email protected]English
    22•3 days ago

    Well, an argument that would fly over their heads is that this “daylighting” rule is in place in more than half of the world.

    So maybe there’s a good reason ?

    • BobEnglish
      6•2 days ago

      It’s such a common-sense rule that it’d never occurred to me that such a developped country wouldn’t have it.

      • @GoodmorningsunshineEnglish
        5•2 days ago

        America’s more of a developed company than it is a developed country, and the CEOs don’t work for the employees.