When I raised the issue of more enforcement , the chair INTERRUPTED my statement to defensively say that it would indeed require more police which we do not have enough of.

WE all know it is not an issue of quantity but will. Right now being a pedestrian or a bicyclist, is like being black in Alabama in 1950. We are many more but the police is protecting the other guy. The cultural divide is deep and wide.

Two days ago , a police car was double parked 30 ft away from a gridlocked intersection. Two officers were outside their car. I enjoined them to give gridlock tickets and they brushed me away , saying they were working on an investigation. They proceeded to remain seated in their car for 10 minutes, while an ambulance was wailing , blocked in the same gridlock. for all we know , one person will die because of the delay.

So before we can have traffic justice in the courts, we need the police to catch the criminals … and they don’t.

I had to leave about 1 hour into it. At that point, only a panel of 4 speakers (prosecutors/advocates who spoke mostly about child endangerment) had had time to speak. There were a lot of people in the “audience” (right word?), and if only half of them were citizens planning on making remarks to the committee, then 1 hour into it was less than half way through the whole thing.

And yet, despite how early I left (no “concerned citizens” had spoken yet), when I got outside the building, two Council Members who had just moments before been sitting on the dais were already outside the building with me, on their way elsewhere. Who knows, they may of course have been on their way to something equally worthy and important, and both of them have at least some very good livable streets merits in their record, but leaving when they did, they surely heard very little talk about road safety…