November 12, 2023 / / One comment

My apologies for another unexcused absence on Friday. 

One of the many insidious effects of diabetes is a dramatic decline in stamina; a handful of errands by bus was enough to knock me out all night, and most of the next morning. 

On the plus side, at least I’m starting the week well rested. 

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Ryan Fonseca of the Los Angeles Times takes a look at why killer drivers are so rarely charged with murder in California.

Although to be fair, it’s not just here.

From what I’ve seen, most drivers walk with just a slap on the wrist, no matter where it happens. If they get charged at all.

Here’s how he explains it.

First off, killing someone with a vehicle is simply viewed differently under the law. That difference is codified in California’s criminal law, where manslaughter — “the unlawful killing of a human being without malice” — is divided into three kinds: Voluntary, involuntary and vehicular.

The key difference between murder and manslaughter is intention. There’s also the idea of implied malice, or what’s sometimes called a depraved heart — when someone should have reasonably known that an act was potentially deadly, but they did it anyway.

Like driving 104 mph in a 45 mile zone, for instance.

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Santa Monica will consider a motion to speed up traffic safety improvements at Tuesday’s city council meeting.

According to an email from Streets For All,

This item will direct the city manager to expedite requests for stop signs, update the city’s guidelines to upgrade unsignalized intersections, update the process through which residents can report dangerous intersections, improve communication between SMPD and the Department of Transportation, update the Take The Friendly Road campaign, develop a proposal to allocate funding towards infrastructure in daylighting zones to address dangerous illegal parking, and more.

It can’t come fast enough.

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Don’t forget to voice your opinion on the LA County bike plan.

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Nice to see a good turnout for this. And maybe someday, things like this won’t be necessary anymore.

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Of course he was one of us.

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The war on cars may be a myth, but the war on bikes just keeps on going.

No bias here.

But sometimes, it’s the people on two wheels behaving badly.

That feeling when the cops chase

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Local 

Streetsblog reports the LA City Council has taken the first steps to implement an automated speed cam program, and officially committed to using “crash,” “collision” or “incident,” rather than “accident” to describe two drivers trying to occupy the same space at the same time. Although I’m more impressed that the LA Times now uses “traffic violence.”

 

State

KPBS

 

National

That’s more like it.

 

International

Police in London

 

Competitive Cycling

Three climate activists

 

Finally…

Heavy bikes need

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Be safe, and stay healthy. And get vaccinated, already.

Oh, and fuck Putin

Category: Morning Links / Tags: ,

One comment

  1. Opus the Poet says:
    November 13, 2023 at 12:35 am

    You seem to have missed putting in a few(?) links.

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