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Trend Watch: Governments Ceding Control of Roads to Outlaw Drivers

By Brad Aaron | Jan 7, 2010 | 16 Comments

Traffic cameras have spotted hundreds of thousands of drivers speeding on Arizona highways since the 2008 launch of an automated enforcement program. Yet the AP reports that what should be a highly successful safety measure is in danger of disappearing. The reason: Law-breaking motorists are staging what amounts to an insurrection against the state, and […]

Charles Diez Gets 120 Days for Shooting Cyclist in the Head

By Brad Aaron | Nov 23, 2009 | 47 Comments

Charles Alexander Diez, the former North Carolina firefighter who shot cyclist Alan Simons in the head, has been sentenced to four months in jail. Diez In an Asheville courtroom last week, Diez pled guilty to shooting Simons during a July 26 roadside confrontation. Said to be upset that Simons was riding his bike with his […]

Are We Smarter Than a Third Grader? On Livable Streets, Maybe Not.

By Brad Aaron | Oct 14, 2009 | 2 Comments

The inspiring and, in a way, infuriating story of Elli Giammona popped up on the Streetsblog Network over the weekend. Livable streets prodigy Elli Giammona. Photo: The Missoulian Elli is a 9-year-old in Missoula, Montana who a couple of years ago began to question why she couldn’t bike to school. When her mother explained that […]

Instant Justice on the Streets of Sacramento

By Brad Aaron | Sep 23, 2009 | 13 Comments

Here’s another installment in what could ideally become a series on how police departments are doing right by pedestrians and cyclists. We posted the Chicago bike video a couple of weeks back. We now present the Sacramento crosswalk sting. (Warning: Insufferable Geico commercial may precede video.) Back in April, TV station KCRA filmed a plainclothes […]

Key West: Florida’s Livable Streets Oasis

By Brad Aaron | Sep 3, 2009 | 12 Comments

Small islands are often natural fits for car-free or car-reduced environments. Some take advantage, some don’t. Based on my dozen or so visits over the last 13 years, most recently in July, I’d say Key West, Florida, falls mostly into the former camp. In many ways, Key West is a prototypical American beach town. There […]

Update From NC: Shooting a Cyclist in the Head Is Not Attempted Murder

By Brad Aaron | Aug 6, 2009 | 34 Comments

A grand jury in Asheville, North Carolina has reduced the charge against a motorist who allegedly shot a cyclist in the head from attempted first-degree murder to felony assault. Charles Diez According to reports, on July 26, Alan Simons was shot by Charles Diez after a confontation along a busy road. The shooting took place […]

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