Security guards and law enforcement personnel are usually the first professionals to provide help in a public emergency and as a result, also experience some of the highest rates of workplace violence in any occupation.
"The '15-minute city' model is based on the original concept of a city: having the things we want and need closer to where we live. The idea is that we should be able to get to our everyday essentials within, ideally, 15 minutes on foot, bike, or public transit."
The D Line Dash event is a train v. bike v. car race from Beverly Hills to Downtown Los Angeles, starting at La Cienega/Wilshire Station, coinciding with the Metro D Line Subway opening.
The real problem is infrastructure, not vehicle safety. Roadways are open systems with infinite variables—weather, pedestrians, distracted drivers, and aging infrastructure. Communication between vehicles is minimal, and infrastructure is largely silent—and in that gap lies the potential for deadly collisions.
Compact, low-rise villages and cities made sense based on how far people could reasonably travel on foot or by horse. This was true all the way up until the late 1800s. Then came an invention that let people travel incredible distances in seconds, entirely reshaping cities with dense population clusters.