Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Traffic Enforcement

The End of ‘Criminal Mischief’? A Reflection on Three Months of Field Work

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jan 27, 2023 | No Comments

For three months, our Streetsblog NYC editor has been exposing one of New York City's great scams: drivers (mostly cops) who deface their license plates to avoid speed-camera tickets. Well, it's time to hang up the paint pen and screwdriver.

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VISION ZERO 2022: More Dead Kids, More Crashes in Known Danger Zones

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jan 25, 2023 | No Comments

More children died in crashes last year than in another other year in the Vision Zero era and crashes remain concentrated in areas that are known to be treacherous, according to a new report that crunches the numbers on the bloody 12 months of 2022.

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How to Cut Drunk Driving — Discourage the Drinking … Or the Driving?

By Gersh Kuntzman | Dec 23, 2022 | No Comments

New York transportation officials are backing a bill that has been proposed more or less every year, yet never makes it out of committee. There has to be a better way.

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Civilian Enforcement: A Get-Rich-Quick Scheme That Also Makes the City Safer

By Joseph Tedeschi | Dec 9, 2022 | No Comments

Want to make a six-figure salary and never leave your neighborhood? AND make the city safer? It may soon be possible.

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Opinion: Against ‘Narc Urbanism’

By MJ Barnett | Dec 6, 2022 | No Comments

I believe that turning citizens against one another, even in the name of pedestrian safety, is a terrible mistake.

Should People Be Able to Issue Their Neighbors Traffic Fines?

By Kea Wilson | Nov 22, 2022 | No Comments

Imagine a world where every cell phone in every pocket in America could be instantly transformed into a portable traffic camera, capable of issuing misbehaving motorists a ticket with little more than a few swipes on a touch screen.

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