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5. 3-Way Street
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By summer 2010, the expansion of bike lanes in NYC exposed a clash of long-standing bad habits — such as pedestrians jaywalking, cyclists running red lights, and motorists plowing through crosswalks.
By focusing on one intersection as a case study, my video aims to show our interconnection and shared role in improving the safety and usability of our streets.
The video is part of a larger campaign I created called '3-Way Street'. Please see blog.ronconcocacola.com for more details.
Music: Peter Gunn Theme by Art of Noise, available on iTunes
By focusing on one intersection as a case study, my video aims to show our interconnection and shared role in improving the safety and usability of our streets.
The video is part of a larger campaign I created called '3-Way Street'. Please see blog.ronconcocacola.com for more details.
Music: Peter Gunn Theme by Art of Noise, available on iTunes
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The red 'collision zone' highlights don't show danger spots, they just show people going to close to each other, that's all. In fact, what you are actually highlighting is that your perception of danger and risk doesn't reflect the actual risk in a given situation. Compare appearances with outcomes and you should find that what we perceive as risky, isn't necessarily so.
That's why we spend so much on countering terrorism (57 deaths in the UK in the last ten years), when urban air pollution (primarily caused by car exhausts) causes 27,000 deaths a year. Which of these two are most people more afraid of?
If you really want to wreak havoc - try to control that system without corrective feedback (eg more rules, lights, controls, etc) and you'll see the system kill people while it tries to find new stable relationships.
don't forget that rules, signs, lights, etc have no direct impact on the system - they only work through the interpretation of the users.
Pittsburgh was the fourth safest among 52 U.S. metro areas in a study of pedestrian fatalities occurring from 2000 to 2009, according to the report, issued Tuesday by Transportation for America, a national coalition of interest groups that favors progressive transportation policies.
The only metro areas rated safer for walking than Pittsburgh were Boston, Cleveland and New York City."
Read more: postgazette.com/pg/11145/1148915-53-0.stm?cmpid=newspanel4#ixzz1OdUttKKC
Entrepreneurs could create iPhone/Android apps to help people capture and submit ticketing videos. The app could even include some security such as date/time or a digital signature verifying that the video wasn't forged.
The app could even post GPS markers with real-time update, so nearby cops could look out for the people driving recklessly. Cops wouldn't even need to fear being downsided -- instead, they'd have a huge map constantly updating locations where likely traffic violations are occurring, making their life easier!
And if 'reckless driving' refers the drivers' inability to use signal lights to indicate sudden change of behaviors, then almost all cyclists are reckless as they all fail to signal their intention.
I wanna go to NYC, looks like such a zoo!
I've been following the anti-cycling rhetoric in the US for a while and always found it ridiculous, but now that I've seen this, I can fully understand it. If you ride like that, people will hate you (rightfully so!), and it will rub off on all cyclists, even those that aren't actively trying to piss everyone else off.
Rules of the road:
1. Be nice. Be considerate. Smile. Seriously. It won't kill you.
2. Be predictable. Because doing surprising stuff will kill you.
3. Calm down. It's not a race.
4. Don't be a self-entitled asshole. Traffic is an organizational system that requires cooperation and does not revolve around one person (you).
And this is coming from someone who rides fast and runs red lights. But not all the time, and not at any cost. If it annoys people, you probably shouldn't be doing it.
Whoo. That high level of inconsiderate behaviour really got me riled up :D
Thanks for making the video! Very enlightening.
Just to clarify: when I said I run red lights while still adhering to my own rules, I mean that I do it when there's no perpendicular traffic and no pedestrians crossing that I'd have to weave through.
Great POV !
Nice job !
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@ Mallix, yes I have been to Asia (I love it). But this video is not meant to be a comparison to any other place. It is meant to graphically show how our street behavior impacts others.
@ Frank and Anthony: I woud say I agree; the red interactions can be seen as personal space zones. The video tries to illustrate 'bad habits' as opposed to 'horrible danger'. This is important because the 'bad habits' exacerbate attempts to evolve NYC street usage.
this video couldn't be truer even if you think it's insignificant compared to automobile deaths. there is always something worse to compare to.
posted @
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Law enforcement works because of the enforcement part, which means getting a ticket for doing something wrong, so if there aren't any cops around the "logic thing" is that people will do whatever they want since there's no penalty. Most people don't care about the law or what's right, but about the ticket.
posted @
droppingby.de/2011/06/08/gefahrliche-kreuzung-in-new-york/
(en.www.info.vn/society/traffic/16682-ho-chi-minh-city-road-accidents-drop-toll-down-congestion-up.html)
and
traffic accidents are the leading cause of death and injury in vietnam?
wpro.who.int/vietnam/sites/dhp/injury/
I love the concept with monitoring and capturing all of this crazy traffic. Kudos to you for bringing this issue to light.
it's laughable but at the same time, poor driving and this kind of inconsideration on the roads isn't really tolerable. very dangerous. great film... thx
That said, great idea and video... amazing execution!
Please see blog post 6.10.11
blog.ronconcocacola.com
Here's an idea: focus on getting people where they are going with a slightly higher injury rate. As it stands, traffic rules waste hundreds of millions of hours each year causing needless delays. If you look at the number of lives represented by those hours, it's a lot more people than would be hurt if we loosened traffic rules and people focused on just getting there.
The "scofflaw" cyclists and "jaywalking" pedestrians are part of the regular, nonpolluting matrix of the city. Simply people posing little to no danger to one another, passing through the environment. AUTOS are the disease.
In my opinion, even though the cyclists there look bad .. the pedestrians in Manhattan are worse, and I think the clip (because of the angle of view) doesn't reveal how many pedestrians are ignoring their crossing signals. As someone who reluctantly drives in Manhattan, I honestly think the pedestrians' general blatant ignoring of signals are the worst offenders, walking across even though traffic is approaching on a straight green light.
Thanks so much for your note.
I am frustrated by my medium (video) because it favors the drama of the sleek, quick bicyclist.
Meanwhile, it does not make a particularly dramatic visual for people 'standing in street' or jaywalking. On video, jaywalking is not apparent unless it is labeled clearly. And even then, it does not have much visual impact.
Also, the girl who runs for the light is as much at fault as the bicyclist who runs the light (in my opinion), but the video makes the bicyclist appear worse.
And on the street level, I think the two 'aggressive yield' motorist incidents are MUCH worse than they appear on video. The first with a small child, and the second with a woman who really must stand her ground or she will be plowed over.
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As confusing as this looks and as dangerous as it seems, this isn't really the dangerous traffic in NY, yes a lot of accidents happen at intersections but they're not the serious ones, those happen where cars can drive faster, highways etc.
The flow of traffic in NYC is kind of amazing, I ride a bike there and drivers inconsideration towards bikes is enraging at times but in all reality it's the bikers themselves that are the biggest problem. Bike messengers and food delivery guys are the worst culprits.
Fun video : )
Try using the exact same video with some light classical music like maybe Blue Danube Waltz by Johann Strauss minus your little highlights. I thought the rhythm of the cars, bikes, and peds were quite ballet-like. You saw a problem, I see an organism of great beauty (albeit humans make errors of judgment and some are just selfish or stupid). Each person expresses their style of getting from A to B and "miraculously" no one was even knocked down.
Too much energy spent over nothing. What your video showed was not a problem needing repair (there is no solution anyway), but a factual display of human nature. If I were from another planet visiting Earth, I would use your video as a tutorial for exactly how to act when I reached my destination.
Perhaps you would prefer to live in a totalitarian regime where everyone is a little robot (in public). I happen to enjoy being around personal expression. If a little blood hits the wall, so be it.
That being said, I liked your creativity and the video. But I turned off your sound and put on the following soundtrack. You should try it! You will be much less tense.
youtube.com/watch?v=Z67dNEit5fY&feature=fvst