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Eat Your Words from Edible Alaska: #53: Fish on!
Craig Medred: Killers on the road
And the foolishness of toothless regulation
Fueled by good intentions, a trio of politicians in Alaska’s largest city has drafted a new ordinance to protect “vulnerable road users” that is so bad as to be laughable, but sure to make them heroes to those who think regulations in and of themselves solve problems.
Anchorage lawyer Marc Grober, a long-time advocate for road safety, said he can see nothing in the proposed ordinance that would do anything to reduce the carnage in Anchorage where 75 percent of all Alaska collisions between motor vehicles and bicyclists take place and where the state’s greatest number of pedestrians die.