It is a fallacious argument for them to say safety would decrease without cars nearby — not necessarily because of the idea that an area with fewer witnesses around isn’t more dangerous in theory — but because nobody in a car would stop to help a pedestrian anyway.
Also the cars plow into people and murder them, but I digress.
Pro-car people will reach for any excuse.
The only cars that should be in parks are emergency vehicles during actual emergencies.
I really dislike when the cop cars cruise through. There’s one by me where they park at an entrance, causing a blind spot for any cyclists.
It is a fallacious argument for them to say safety would decrease without cars nearby — not necessarily because of the idea that an area with fewer witnesses around isn’t more dangerous in theory — but because nobody in a car would stop to help a pedestrian anyway.
Also the cars plow into people and murder them, but I digress.
Yes. I believe this has been well known since at least the 1960s, as I think Jane Jacobs wrote about it in “death and life of great American cities”.
Cars remove people from the community. A driver cruising along at 25+ mph isn’t going to see much, and stopping is far more difficult than on foot.