The two anti-idling bills that recently passed in City Council are good, but please ask your Council Members to support Garodnick’s anti-idling bill Int 881. It specifically addresses enforcement, rather than just banning or restricting something, so it seems like it could be a more effective anti-idling tool than the other two bills.

I am a mother of two, 4 and 6. My 2 kids also attended Daycare Center in Chinatown and they made trips to the same library. I cannot imagine what you are going through. I kept thinking this can happen to me. I cannot stop thinking about little Hayley and Diego and you. When I watched clips of Hayley’s video on the internet it is very hard to hold back tears. My heart really goes out to you and your husband. I hope you two will find peace in whatever you are pursuing and please stay strong!

Naturally, I am distraught at what happened and my thoughts have been with you. I am sure the same goes for most who visit this site.

To PaulCJr, I agree and if I can I will fight to get the city to do something about protecting pedestrians, especially the children.

What motivates delivery trucks to be left idling without their driver? Are they less likely to get a ticket while in a no standing zone? I would like to better understand the issues in order to be part of the solution.

This remains a false analogy.

Motor vehicle fatality rates and attendant cultural blindnesses are much more interesting than this. See Arendt’s phrase /banal evil/.

You made a mistake, however, when you left out the actual subject phrase of my sentence–”the way people excuse the violence”–and hence distorted the entire meaning of my post. Please read my comment again and reflect on whether I’m equating the violence of white supremacy and the violence of autocentricity.

In fact, what I’m saying is comparable is *the way people have excused* historically different forms of violence in the United States (the violence of the car, the violence of white supremacy). This is a cultural as well as a political fact that progressive histories of the automobile and autocentric planning have demonstrated; a long bibliography exists.

Again, thanks for your reply.

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Um, yes it is.

Reckless might not be the right word here. But the evidence leads rather strongly to the conclusion that he was negligent in his duty to operate dangerous machinery in a manner which would avoid the deaths of innocents. I’m not a lawyer or a judge, but it appears eminently provable that this negligence was criminal.

Even if you believe such insane things, you shouldn’t say them, because you make the rest of us look cuckoo by association.

The private automobile isn’t like lynching black people. Rather, try: “We’re too reliant on the private car. It should be part of your life, at best, and not the sole method by which you’re able to live your life.”

Doesn’t that sound a lot more palatable? A lot more /sane/?

An even better analogy: the way people excuse the violence of the private automobile today is comparable to the way people excused the violence of white supremacy in this country up until (with a few notable exceptions) around 40 years ago.

Are you trolling? Baby/bathwater.

To prosecute a minor traffic infraction when weighed against having to live with the consequences of what happened seems a pointless mockery. It neither brings solace to those who have lost nor acknowledges the sincerity of what I assume any sentient person would feel having caused that loss.