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One dead, one injured in early morning Allston crash
By adamg on Sat, 07/11/2015 - 9:17am
Stanley Staco reports a crash around 1:40 a.m. at Brighton Avenue and Reedsdale Street killed one person and injured another.
WCVB reports a motorcyclist died after hitting a pedestrian.
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No crosswalk where pedestrian killed motorcyclist
Interestingly, Google Street View shows a guy in the left lane of the road pushing his shopping cart!
https://goo.gl/fSX4BM
Just shut up.
Just shut up.
Google street view is on the scene!
Ah yes - things that happen at 6:00 am two summers ago MUST be the current conditions at the time of the accident!
It Shows That Six Lanes For Motor Vehicles Is Way Too Much
Sidewalks on both sides
and a grassy median. That's for a far fewer number of pedestrians than motor vehicles.
How do you get six lanes? I see 2 parking (and bus stop) lanes and four travel lanes that can be shared between motor vehicles and bicycles.
2 + 4 = 6
Oops
Didn't have my coffee.
If you think there are more
If you think there are more cars than pedestrians in that area, you are 100% wrong. That is a well studied corridor and the pedestrians outnumber cars 2:1 on a daily basis.
And if you think the grassy median is there for pedestrians, you clearly don't know the history of the neighborhood. It is there at the request of motorists whose goal was to not have people crossing the street to get on the A-line that ran down the middle of the street. The median is actually fairly tall to discourage people from crossing the street over the median.
This is a neighborhood of largely pedestrians that have had their street co-opted by people from Brighton and Watertown who want to speed down the road into the city. Yet, those motorists are still outnumbered by pedestrians.
I'm glad we have people like you to stand up for motorists who speed down the streets and cannot face any culpability for not being careful when driving through a neighborhood full of bars around closing time.
Citation? Your ass?
Do you have a citation for the pedestrian counts?
MassDOT has 2010 and 2002 motor vehicle counts for that area, with about 23,000 daily volume, with slightly more than half of the total in the northbound direction.
https://www.massdot.state.ma.us/highway/TrafficVolumeCounts.aspx
So, where is your data showing over 46,000 daily pedestrian trips along that stretch, per your 2:1 ASSertion? Your claim is clearly absurd since the entire population of Allston is only 29,196, and even Brighton is 38,839 (2010 US Census).
If the grassy median were to discourage pedestrians from jaywalking, it would have a fence.
You do make a valid point: Drunk pedestrians are the largest group getting themselves injured and killed much like drunk drivers. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/08/05/drunk-pedestrian-fa...
Speaking of drunk pedestrians
What about smartphone zombies? I recently started commuting by T for the first time in about ten years, and it amazes me how many people walk around completely oblivious to their surroundings because their eyeballs are glued to a smartphone. I'm surprised more of them don't walk off subway platforms, considering how many of these Hans Guck-in-die-Lufts are apparently not paying attention to where they're walking.
Studies have been done showing that using a smartphone while driving creates impairment as bad as that from being legally too drunk to drive; I wonder about the effect on walking.
Pedestrians get their phones stolen by being unaware
Be it on the subway as someone exits or on the street.
Karma's a bitch, MarKKK
Keep it up, you idiot. One day, shit is gonna happen to you, and when it does you'll reap what you sow. People will point and laugh and tell you that it was all your fault, and the pain will be beyond belief.
On the other hand, it's also possible that on the day when you're down, you'll encounter people who are more intelligent and thoughtful than you are (not hard to find), and that you are treated with sympathy and compassion rather than the stupid ignorant ill-informed blame that you're so ready to lay on others. You're actively working at making the world a shittier place, MarKKK. Think about changing that before it's too late for you.
Motorcycle Accident in Allston.
I drive commercially through Allston on Brighton Ave almost every Friday night or Saturday morning exactly around the time the bars are letting out and am always concerned about the way people, especially the drunk ones, literally throw themselves in front of vehicles as if they are superhuman. In fact I usually slow down so that when I get to that area most of the crowd have dispersed. I am not surprised this accident occurred and felt sad for the person who died. Allston is a very dangerous area for both pedestrians and motorists. I wish that I can avoid it but unfortunately have to drive through there.
"Literally"
"You keep using this word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
You usually slow down? I'd expect you to ALWAYS slow down. Don't expect drunk people to have impeccable judgment and lightning-fast reflexes.
Your "Literally" response
Looks to me that you have a comprehension problem when you read. When I say literally, that's exactly what I mean "literally"... there has been instances when young people, not necessarily drunk, just acting stupid and not wanting to go home but continuing "the party" out on to the street and yes they literally have thrown themselves in front of my vehicle at the intersection of Brighton Ave and Harvard Ave regardless of whether I have the green light and the vehicle is moving. The argument is not whether the drunk ones have good judgement or not .... we know they don't but the rest of the world can't be responsible for their stupidity to be out on the street drunk anyways. They are taking a major risk with their own lives. As for slowing down, I said that at my starting point in a totally different city I slow down to about 15 mph even down there is no traffic so that way when I get to Allston the crowd has dispersed for the most part. I don't believe that I gave the idea that I drive fast through Allston. I clearly stated that I slow down so that when "I GET THERE" the crowd had dispersed. Again, you have a reading comprehension problem. I am responsible for what I write but not for the way you interpret it. Sorry.
Half 20 something pedestrians killed are drunk
Its in my link above from usa today about a government report. The data clearly supports your observation of drunk young zombies wandering into the road and harming/killing themselves.