{"id":351277,"date":"2021-10-11T04:30:34","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T01:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/eric-adams-needs-to-tackle-traffic-mayhem-in-addition-to-criminality\/"},"modified":"2021-10-11T04:30:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T01:30:34","slug":"eric-adams-needs-to-tackle-traffic-mayhem-in-addition-to-criminality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/eric-adams-needs-to-tackle-traffic-mayhem-in-addition-to-criminality\/","title":{"rendered":"#Eric Adams needs to tackle traffic mayhem in addition to criminality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Eric Adams needs to tackle traffic mayhem in addition to criminality<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/nicole-gelinas.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Nicole Gelinas\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/nicole-gelinas.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/nicole-gelinas.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>When Eric Adams (almost certainly) takes over City Hall in 12 weeks, one of the many disasters he will face is traffic deaths. Like murders, road carnage has soared since COVID. Adams can\u2019t ignore reckless drivers to focus on shooters. The two measures of \u00adurban disorder rise and fall in tandem.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This past summer was the deadliest for walkers, cyclists and car drivers and passengers since the start of the de Blasio era, Transportation Alternatives found in a new study: 200 people have died on the streets this year. That\u2019s the most traffic deaths in nine months since Mayor de Blasio took office. And it\u2019s an increase on top of an increase: Just like murders, traffic deaths rose last year, up more than 10 percent, to 243. This, even though people were under orders to stay home for much of 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It isn\u2019t that de Blasio\u2019s Vision Zero program \u2014 bike lanes and speed cameras and the like \u2014 wasn\u2019t working. Deaths fell by 26 percent between 2013 and 2019, to 220, continuing big declines from the Bloomberg era.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No, it\u2019s that all kinds of other chaos have exploded recently. When you can carry an illegal gun with impunity, you can also speed with impunity, drive while high on drugs with impunity, drive the wrong way down one-way street with impunity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For four decades, traffic deaths and murders have risen and fallen together, according to my analysis of the data. The statistical correlation is as close as \u201cone to one\u201d as you get. Crash and murder deaths rose steadily from 1980, to reach their peak \u2014 701 traffic deaths, 2245 murders \u2014 in 1990. Then, they both fell steadily, to lows reached between 2017 and 2019: an average of 216 traffic deaths and 302 murders for each of those three years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Consider some striking examples: The man who killed 31-year-old Carina Lopez in The Bronx last month, speeding into her at 90 miles per hour, was allegedly high out of his mind on cocaine. The man who killed baby Apolline Mong-Guillemin on a sidewalk in Brooklyn last month was speeding the wrong way down a one-way street, having racked up nearly 200 tickets and arrests.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last week, someone was riding a motorized \u201ce-bike\u201d on the Belt Parkway, a major highway. You aren\u2019t supposed to do that, and had the driver who hit and killed him instead stopped, he likely wouldn\u2019t have faced any charges. But\u00a0the driver didn\u2019t stop. He and his four passengers fled their car in the middle of the road.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/brooklyn-accident.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"The scene of where two teenagers were critically injured after getting hit by a car while riding an electric scooter in Gravesend, Brooklyn on October 6, 2021.\" class=\"wp-image-19761538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/brooklyn-accident.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/brooklyn-accident.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/brooklyn-accident.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The scene of where two teenagers were critically injured after getting hit by a car while riding an electric scooter in Gravesend, Brooklyn on October 6, 2021.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Paul Martinka<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An attentive, lawful driver maybe could have avoided hitting and killing the illegal e-bicyclist. But it seems like this carload of people in the middle of the night had something to hide. Illegal chaos collided with illegal chaos.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This weekend, the police prevented some kind of tragedy. They stopped a speeding driver and found him illegally armed with a gun. Whether they stopped a teen from being shot, or a baby from being run over, doesn\u2019t matter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yet these kinds of police stops, of drivers committing \u201cmoving violations\u201d such as speeding and going the wrong way, have fallen by half since 2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t help that food-delivery <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>s such as Grubhub and DoorDash have flooded the streets with inexperienced \u201cindependent contractor\u201d delivery riders on motorized \u201ce-bikes\u201d that go close to 20 miles per hour. You can\u2019t deliver a millennial bro his grilled-cheese sandwich in his \u201cluxury\u201d apartment from a junk-food restaurant three miles away for your $1 tip unless you go really fast.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/bike-accident.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Police at the scene of where a man was hit and killed while riding a bike on the Henry Hudson Parkway in Manhattan on October 7, 2021.\" class=\"wp-image-19761546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/bike-accident.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/bike-accident.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/bike-accident.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Police at the scene of where a man was hit and killed while riding a bike on the Henry Hudson Parkway in Manhattan on October 7, 2021.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Christopher Sadowski<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So the motorized bike isn\u2019t a choice \u2014 it\u2019s part of the predatory business model. The delivery \u00adbikers are in grave danger. Ten of them have died this year, up from seven for all of last year. Is the cheap food worth it?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Civilians aren\u2019t safe from these tech companies, either. Last year, a Revel scooter rider killed 82-year-old pedestrian Helga Schnitker at Columbus Circle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But the apps disavow any \u00adresponsibility from the tragic mess they helped create. (And\u00a0this year, someone riding his own two-wheeled moped killed 65-year-old actress Lisa Banes near Lincoln Center).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To solve the problem, Adams will have to do the same thing that worked with cutting the murder rate over four decades: restoring good policing to the streets (and refusing to let millennial \u201ctech\u201d take over the streets). Good policing and app regulation save lives \u2014 both \u201cregular\u201d crime victims and crash victims.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Nicole Gelinas is a contributing editor of City Journal.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>: <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nicolegelinas\">@NicoleGelinas<\/a><\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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