Showing posts with label Pedestrian safety. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pedestrian safety. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

'Our children were killed and the driver walks away without a ticket': Anguished moms demand justice

This article discusses the death of two toddlers in Manhattan Chinatown. Streetsblog, which writes generally about improved transportation alternatives and reducing auto dependence, has framed this story as problem with the city's idling policy. Their article talks about the need to pass an upcoming bill at New York City Council that would reduce the legal idling time from 3 minutes to 1 minute when a vehicle is adjacent to a school.

This is how Rebecca Kalin of Asthma Free School Zone links this idling vehicle disaster and human health:
"Idling is harmful to health and environment; it's wasteful and against the law. Now, we can add "dangerous to pedestrians." The Chinatown tragedy might never have happened if the driver had simply turned the key."