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California Highway Patrol supports Pedestrian Safety Month with yet another tone deaf Public Safety Announcement putting the onus for safety on the most vulnerable people using roads.

You get a flurry of local news coverage ... but not a lot of participation. No wonder pols all have the "windshield perspective."

"We are, paradoxically, dependent on public transit and plagued by the congestion posed by millions of cars, choking exhaust, hundreds of annual traffic crash deaths, and the nation’s slowest bus service."

The National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration has posted a short "safety fact sheet" summarizing the research on stop-as-yield laws. They reduce crashes.

In reality, plenty of people benefit from such projects. But the media often highlight the loudest, least-informed voices.

District Attorney's statement mentions distracted driving, but says it doesn't qualify as criminal negligence?

Smoking, once a celebrated totem of American culture, is increasingly an ostracized habit of the marginal few. Getting there, though, took deliberate vision, coordinated efforts, and persistent policy trial and error over decades — and those efforts reveal a partial roadmap for breaking our country’s similarly dangerous addiction to cars.

"A mayor is somebody who not just cheer-leads, but also shows people the path that’s possible, and then encourages people to get on that path – that bike path – and help move the city towards what it wants to be.”

The governor relied on flawed safety data to argue that bike stop and "jaywalking" bills would somehow decrease safety, while data shows the opposite.

A pile of bills await the Governor's signature, among them some pretty big wins for bicycle and pedestrian safety.