To the editor: Michael Schneider’s op-ed article on site visitors fatalities in Los Angeles acknowledges that street recklessness elevated dramatically throughout the pandemic.
Anybody who walks, bikes or drives in Southern California will attest to the truth that driving courtesy has declined dramatically the previous 4 years. Many drivers routinely ignore cease indicators and run the primary seconds of pink lights.
Whereas Measure HLA will result in welcome enhancements in security and transit choices within the metropolis of Los Angeles, it doesn’t handle the precise, said reason behind site visitors deaths: recklessness. What is required is elevated enforcement of fundamental site visitors legal guidelines, whether or not by cameras or officers.
Utilizing Schneider’s analogy of a serial killer, the hunt ought to be for the killer, not simply the roadway.
Thomas Bliss, Los Angeles
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To the editor: Nobody who drives is mystified by the rise in pedestrian deaths.
It’s the norm to see pedestrians crossing the road taking a look at their telephones. One other silly transfer is moving into the crosswalk when the sunshine modifications however with out trying. That pedestrian can be in the appropriate — and presumably lifeless proper.
Let’s begin a motion of tooting our horns on the cellphone zombies to wake them up.
Parrish Nelson Hirasaki, Culver Metropolis
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To the editor: I often spend time in Queensland state, Australia. In Australia, the site visitors loss of life charge was about 4.4 per 100,000 individuals in 2021, in comparison with 12.9 within the U.S. How do they preserve the charges a lot decrease in Queensland?
- Radar cameras on motorways calculate a driver’s pace between two factors. If the posted pace restrict is exceeded, a photograph is taken and a ticket issued digitally.
- Sensors embedded within the pavement at intersections catch red-light runners. Once more, a photograph is taken and a digital quotation issued.
- Cell pace vans transfer alongside roads and streets. These additionally situation digital tickets to speeders.
Till U.S. politicians decide to the larger good of our society, we’ll proceed to expertise our absurd roadway bloodletting.
Brian Burd, Santa Barbara
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To the editor: I don’t perceive why anybody can be stunned by the close to doubling in pedestrian deaths in Los Angeles.
For the reason that begin of COVID-19, there was little or no enforcement of site visitors legal guidelines. Ask your self, when was the final time you noticed a dashing driver get pulled over by the police, by no means thoughts all of the drivers blowing by pink lights which are clearly pink?
And the way concerning the motorists trying down at their telephones whereas driving?
I don’t know what the police are doing, however they certain aren’t imposing site visitors legal guidelines — and drivers know this.
Laurie S. Adami, Los Angeles
