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Firefighters vetoing pedestrian safety

2018-02-08 20:58:38.927533+00 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

San Francisco firefighters union asks mayoral candidates for veto power over bike lanes, pedestrian safety projects.

Two things:

  1. WTF? This seems the sort of thing the office of the fire chief might ask, but the union?
  2. Seems like all of these improvements should have some notion of statistical lives saved (hard to do because of macroeconomic effects, but...) and any impacts on emergency response should be even easier to quantify.

There are the macro effects, what do more or fewer cars mean for response, that sort of thing, but just at the minimal ones...

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