To the editor: Your probabilities of being killed or severely injured on the roads, sidewalks and bikeways of Los Angeles — and throughout the nation — grew considerably in recent times, as reported your Jan. 9 article, “A whole lot died in L.A. visitors crashes in 2021. Is Imaginative and prescient Zero a failure?”
The fact is that to advance Imaginative and prescient Zero — the concept that all visitors deaths ought to be eradicated and there should be secure mobility for everybody — we have to evolve previous the outdated, siloed “Es” of visitors security: engineering, enforcement, schooling, analysis and engagement.
As a substitute, an efficient and equitable Imaginative and prescient Zero effort is constructed on the secure system strategy. This focuses on upstream, proactive methods, corresponding to designing streets and managing speeds for security. And it depends much less on the downstream, reactive strategy of enforcement, which is very vital given proof of unacceptable racial bias in visitors stops.
Saving lives on the streets — and doing so justly — is feasible in L.A. and throughout the U.S., however provided that our leaders present the political will to alter enterprise as standard.
Leah Shahum, Sebastopol, Calif.
The author is founder and government director of the Imaginative and prescient Zero Community.
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To the editor: Why not strive 55 mph once more?
When driving on the 5 Freeway not too long ago, I noticed automobiles stalled and idling for miles, more than likely due to a crash. Extreme velocity can result in collisions, so why not attempt to restrict freeway velocity to 55 mph?
Not all of us can bike, and never all locations may be reached by public transportation, so reestablishing a 55 mph velocity restrict is a method of saving gasoline with little effort. Once I lived in Palo Alto, biking and strolling had been my solely types of transportation, however the considered biking in Southern California is intimidating.
The utmost freeway velocity was scaled down throughout an earlier gasoline disaster however was discontinued as a result of folks had been ignoring the regulation. Nicely, we're not in a short lived disaster: International warming is a life-or-death downside for humanity and nature.
Daina Krigens, Encinitas
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To the editor: This disturbing story on the a whole bunch of individuals killed in L.A. visitors yearly confirms the purpose I’ve been making for years — that fatalities maintain rising due to the shortage of enforcement of visitors legal guidelines.
One drive round West L.A. or Santa Monica reveals motorists dashing, making unlawful turns, tailgating, working purple lights, failing to look at yield guidelines and on and on. And don’t attempt to drive the velocity restrict of 65 mph on the 405; you’ll get tailgated and glared at.
Till there are extra visitors cops on metropolis streets and extra California Freeway Patrol automobiles cruising the freeways, these issues will worsen. When drivers know there aren't any penalties for reckless driving, why ought to they alter their conduct behind the wheel?
Joseph Puterbaugh, Santa Monica
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