Cheating death everyday Gallup Poll, a surveyor of American public opinion since 1935, is now reporting that the greatest fear of more than a third of Americans is that they will be […]
The disconnect
It’s no ‘accident’
The real reasons pedestrians die An urban planner turned internet content provider did a deep dive into why pedestrian deaths in the U.S. rose 72 percent faster than both population growth and […]
Low-value lives
Killer driver’s short jail sentence Anchorage driver Bessie Binkowski avoided homicide charges for killing 63-year-old Arthur Stepetin, Jr. in August, but she will be spending four months in jail thanks to a […]
Double tragedy
The cost of convenience The Anchorage Police Department has finally identified the hit-and-run driver behind the wheel of a Jeep Cherokee that killed 63-year-old Arthur Stepetin Jr. on Aug. 29. After weeks […]
Another death
Another pedestrian hit in a crosswalk The Anchorage Police Department has finally confirmed a pedestrian death in South Anchorage reported on social media two days ago. A friend of the dead woman […]
Faster, faster, faster
Death by design on U.S. roads With a record number of pedestrians dead in Anchorage last year, the state Department of Transportation has proposed a new, high-speed roadway through the heart of […]
Pedestrian confusions
The pedestrians are not the killers The mayor of Alaska’s largest wants to stiffen the so-called crime of “jaywalking” in the name of saving lives, and nobody seems to have asked […]
Strangely law-abiding
Pedestrian killing driver charged in Anchorage Coeur d’Alene, Idaho – The strange part about walking around downtown in this very conservative Lower 48 city is that motorists actually seem to understand state […]
Cost of convenience
To speed us on our way, we kill people In a month when the deaths of vulnerable road users are normally in decline in Alaska’s largest city, a motor vehicle has struck […]
War on cars
We have met the enemy; he is us Electric-powered cars and trucks are not the clean-world panacea many Americans thought they were, researchers for the National Bureau of Economic Research have […]
