I was really surprised to see how many accidents [sic] we're having because people are crossing in the middle of the street and not at the crosswalk," the mayor said. "People are walking against the light."
But as Streetsblog readers know, people in power have been assigning U.S. pedestrians blame for their own deaths since the dawn of the Auto Age, so it's no surprise that Adams is joining the chorus. But it's distressing as both a harbinger of continued mayoral car coddling and an indicator of municipal amnesia.
Twenty-five years ago, I led the Right Of Way team that published the groundbreaking booklet, Killed By Automobile. Our 64-page report examined 947 pedestrian and cyclist deaths in the five boroughs from 1994 to 1997.
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