Easy solution for safer streets If the stories told by the many motorists who claim to have been traumatized by near misses with homeless pedestrians on Anchorage streets are true, maybe […]
Saving lives
Dog down
Man killed in Anchorage crosswalk A dog strayed into Anchorage Midtown traffic early Tuesday and paid the price with its life. Fifty-three-year-old Evan Larson Jr. went to the dog and was hit […]
Road kill 2
Me, me, me killers Part 2 of a three-part series With tens of thousands of people dying on American roads every year, the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety in 2023 polled drivers […]
Road kill 1
The human costs Part 1 of a three-part series Every 24 days and 8 hours in these unUnited States as many people die on the roadways as were killed in the 9/11 […]
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 […]
Dubious distinction
On pace for road-death record With 11 pedestrians dead this year on the streets of Sacramento, the California city of half a million people is on the verge of declaring a state […]
Road kill
A new Anchorage record Drivers of motor vehicles killed four pedestrians on Anchorage roads in five days last week and few residents of Alaska’s largest city paid it much attention. Imagine […]
Bike wars
Motorists enraged by city’s new bike lanes Of the wands that have sprouted along two streets in downtown Anchorage, one thing can be said for certain: Never has so much been made […]
