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Originally Posted by Malloy
I have no details...but I saw Henry from Midvale to Coulter blocked by 4 police cars. I also saw a Florist van stopped in the middle of Henry, a women's boot and a handbag on the ground near the van  .
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Both Penndot & Traffic Engineering at the Phila. Streets Dept. have maintained that accidents mainly occur when drivers are "impaired". They are reluctant to admit that a lack of traffic calming only serves to encourage reckless speeding. Despite four years of working on the problem, the EFCC Traffic Committee has been unable to extract real and practical traffic calming from them.
Solutions are available and they are low tech and low cost, but incredibly effective. They exist and are used successfully in cities and communities nationwide and around the world. Philadelphia's only problem is, well, it is Philadelphia. What takes cities like Seattle, Vancouver, Portland, San Francisco and London a year or two to implement, it takes decades to happen here. It's time to change the prevailing paradigm!