How it started:
Vision Zero starts with the ethical belief that everyone has the right to move safely in their communities, and that system designers and policy makers share the responsibility to ensure safe systems for travel.How it's going:
On Tuesday night, community members rallied outside City Hall to call on the city to take action after three children were hit and killed by cars in Encinitas since 2023.We don't have the statistics -- we'll leave that to enterprising FOIA citizens -- but it certainly seems that Encinitas roads have become more dangerous since the Vision Zero crowd came to town. Certainly the deaths of Ryan Currie and Dr. Jennings Worley appear directly attributable to the idiotic street designs of Blakespear & Co.
The protest, organized by Safe Streets Encinitas, saw a large turnout. After 17-year-old Seraphina Rose Fadick was hit and killed by a car when crossing Camino Del Norte on July 10, the group is demanding the city make changes.
Zero vision is more like it.
ReplyDeleteI thought the same three years ago when it was proposed.
More leftovers from the previous majority.
8 years ago.
ReplyDeleteMajor pandemic disruption, people not paying attention, add ebikes....
ReplyDeleteBlakespear/Kranz emergency efforts did not save lives. Two people passed after the emergency declaration. Santa Fe was rushed. Stata Fe was not safe. Blakespear wants a law to remove power from cities( bike paths). The men who passed in the bollards, absent. Cherry 🍒 picking
ReplyDeleteI feel like one of those deaths could be attributed to more than a bollard. I get it though, the bitch about bike lanes crew needs to take what they can get.
ReplyDeleteStephanie is pushing out docs that eliminate the bike accidents. She is cherry 🍒🍒🍒 picking data points.
DeleteDuring an election, why would anyone do that...
DeleteThe current city council scrapped Vision Zero.
ReplyDelete8:19am Good move.
ReplyDeleteWhat is brads position requarding L7.
ReplyDelete10;28am Is not the L7 designated park property already been settled?
ReplyDeleteOk.
DeleteStephanie is a good foot soldier and tool to be ignored. She acts above it all repeat the lines Written for her, she’ll do anything but for her Lord and Savior Catherine Blakespear. Must be her shift this weekend before her there was Barb Bolton, and after her, “Verity.”
ReplyDeleteYep, a tag team .... for sure!
DeleteI love seeing the councilmen get put through the ringer. A nice break from the regular MAGA dick sucking from the ladies that try to remain anonymous.
DeleteFreakshow comments do not matter.
DeleteDear MadBrad, Rimjob & Ariola,
ReplyDeleteThank you for not including me on your raise the B.A.R campaign. As you know, I can't handle myself in bars as I like to drink like a fish, flash my city badge around and make out with anything in that has a warm hole. It wouldn't have been a great look.
- Terra
It would be great if we could get through election season without the stupid names for candidates, especially the sexual ones for women. Thank you for your attention to this matter ya fucking losers!
DeleteSW settle down women
ReplyDeleteI was surfing today and Ariola paddled out to the lineup and asked me to vote for her. She has my vote, I was very impressed!
ReplyDelete- Stephanie
Did the repeater move to Carlsbad?
ReplyDeletePlease don't say that name. If it's typed 3 time here they return.
DeleteRepeater Repeaters’s brain died decades ago. ✅
DeleteWho are you referring to?
Last year SD had 262 children with E-bike Traumatic Injuries.Many have died, like 15 yr old Brodee. It doesn’t matter how much education they try to force feed the kids, they will continue to be killed or be severely injured while riding their bikes on the dangerous roads in SDC. Kids will be kids and they are not safe on the roads with speeding and distracted drivers .
ReplyDeleteMore blood from the f$ckimg demon that was mayor from 2016-2022. While she approved to upzoned 15 massive projects, that would increase traffic to a ravenous dangerous level, she and her band of blood thirsty pawns went to the schools to push the kids to ride their bikes every where. Parents made huge mistakes to allow themselves to be sucked in by her and her deadly pawns lies!
He was killed because his parents didn't teach him how to ride safely. You can't merge a bike going 20 in front of a truck going 50. This is why you see kids getting off the bikes and using the crosswalks. Tragedy. New technology outstrips people's ability to deal with it. At least Carlsbad clamped down on the illegal e motorcycles....
DeleteSo interesting how some people decide who/what is at fault for different deaths based on political convenience.
DeleteThose are the facts, go look at the Coast news article. No fault was found with the driver. That street is 50mph....
DeleteRight. Not gonna go search for whatever article you're referring to. My point is that the only things that keeps Brodee from being a mascot for the anti-Blakespear crowd is no fucking bollards or " road furniture" involved, not on 101 and the parents associated with Blakespear and Safe Streets Encinitas.
DeleteAll the road deaths are a tragedy, ignore the poltics and understand what actually happened. Don't let your kids or your neighbors kids hit the road without an understanding of cars and traffic. That's it...
DeleteBullshit. We hear "sad" people speaking up about Dr. Worely all the time, along with anyone else killed/injured along the 101. Except the lady that dared to be friendly with Blakespear prior to her accident. Even the man that was riding late at night with no helmet or light has been deemed politically convenient.
DeleteBrodee and Emery are ignored by Blakespear haters because they either don't give a shit, their parents have spoken out in a way the councilmen find inconvenient politically convenient, or it doesn't fit the narrative of the spandex crew.
I agree that these deaths and injuries are all tragic, but the selective attention comes off as politically motivated.
You can debate yourself on who's using which accident to their political advantage, I'm not using any of them. People have to be able to think for themselves and figure out the facts of what happened vs. what is said by someone in politics. Meanwhile, driving and biking have their dangers, and you have to learn how to protect yourself. If you want to waste your time hating on this of that politician, that's up to you...
DeleteI don't need to debate with anyone, I've given my opinion.
DeleteIt's not about hating politicians, it's about people with agendas picking and choosing among the dead. Like the moderator here.
If you're talking about the Repeater, the person who lists the names and then goes after Bruce, I agree. Pure nonsense. Sadly, election season is here and you can see various people come on here and start assigning blame for election points. Lame.
DeleteDoes Rest in Peace still have any meaning?
ReplyDeleteYes, it absolutely does. But if the city is debating bike lanes, safety features, ripping up roads, renaming streets and other policy issues like bike safety, the deaths and injuries are gonna come up. The horrible things that happened are the reason changes are being proposed and argued over.
DeleteRight, but you have to be able to read about the individual accidents and realize where operator error can come into play. The accident by Trader Joe's where the guy ran the light is operator error, roberta walker in Leucadia was operator error in the dark and the kid on the ebike was operator error as well. You can make some changes, but the human element still comes into play. Dude ran that one light be several seconds, you can't unmake that.
DeleteThis is a difficult path to go down, because it does start to sound like blaming the dead/injured person.
DeleteI'll say this: with Brodee, sure we can say he made an error. He was also a kid learning about all kinds of things about life, on his way to school. Most of the kids that are going to/from school at SDA are in the same position. So maybe city leaders would want to make the road safer to avoid similar tragedies in the future. Instead, they're tearing out the protections that were put in place, making us pay for it, and attempting to push the blame on their personal enemy.
With Emery, she did exactly what she was supposed to do, and the driver is at fault. Yet there is no movement on addressing solutions by this council even though residents have spoken up for months about reasonable changes.
The human element of course comes up in almost any situation where a bike rider and pedestrian have a collision. I'm not going to do a breakdown of what happened in each situation. However, when the councilmen focus on the concerns of the spandex crew, almost exclusively on the 101, it comes off as insincere and politically motivated.
That's two possibly related but different situations. You cannot merge a bike that goes 20 in front of a truck going 50. Basic driving and biking knowledge. Not going to spend an hour on that, up to the parents to provide that guidance.
DeleteThe lanes in front of SDA, the whole design is flawed, so a shame that couldn't be caught and revised prior to build. Is it worth ripping it all out, maybe not, especially bike lines, but there are issues there and now heavily polititicized. Main issue for me, drop off and pickup nd to be moved off of Santa Fe.
I think it's fair to ask, what can the council do at the Taco Bell intersection to prevent that particular accident. It's going to be tough. We have had red light cameras, they weren't there. The driver hit the intersection 4-5 second late.
I'm sure the spandex bikers want all bollards and stops removed in Cardiff, but that hasn't happened, so the lobbying hasn't worked, and that stuff is a disaster.
Think for a minute about all the poor people who are run over in South Central LA, they have no advocacy......
11:22am Yes, many are questioning the roadway design.
ReplyDeleteAre you defending the original Santa Fe Dr. design? Just asking for some clarity.
Ripping up roads? The only ripping up has been the clueless, formerly approved by a past council majority Santa Fe roadway design.
By the "original" Santa Fe design you mean how the block was before the Blakespear changes or how it is now?
DeleteI feel the situation on multiple streets in that area (Melba, Balour, Santa Fe) were and are sketchy with kids biking, walking and getting dropped off before the changes were made.
I think it's dumb and politically motivated to make us pay $4 million to tear the changes up. I'm not sure what problem we're solving either. It sounds like cobble stones in planters and back in parking, for a block, are the overpriced issues.
I’m old enough to remember when Lynn and co freaked out about roundabouts being the end of the world. And now they are accepted and nobody cares, except the intersections are safer and with less congestion.
DeleteI’m sure the changes at SDA would’ve been the same story if the dummies didn’t waste taxpayer dollars listening to the knee jerk reactions of people who can’t deal with change.
People freak out when a new road change goes in near their house, that was the case on the first roundabout. End of story....I too remember all the wailing and gnashing......
DeleteSo we ditched Vision Zero for Vision Many.
ReplyDeleteSounds about right for this council.
They'll blame Brodee, a child, while making excuses for a dude who was riding back from a bar on the 101, at 1AM, in the dark, without a light, not wearing a helmet.
ReplyDeleteIt's not a question of blame, it's what happened. The kid tried to merge in front of a truck going 50 on a bike going 20, tragedy occurs.
DeleteDude down in cardiff is down in lanes post midnight, also a tragedy. Was he impaired, had he been at a bar? Raise your hand if you saw the police or toxicology report. Both are a life wasted. Move on.