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• Be aware of Sun Glare!

  
  Hoboken411.com — Authority: 148
  11/28/2009:Now you knowYou ever drive down Washington Street in the fall and winter and wonder why the sun seems to be much more in your eyes? Well - with so many distractions preventing some folks from educating themselves just a little bit these days, I’ve provided this educational and safety tidbit for you this ...
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• Car Repairs and Preventative Maintenance

  
  DIY Network - Home Improvement How-To & Projects : DIY Network — Authority: 159
  Did you know that every year in the US there are more than 10,000 car accidents and some 400 Americans die in them. The usual reason is failure to have routine maintenance done on cars. The car is the most popular and usual means of transportation in the United States, and about 90% if adult [...]
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• Mysore: Some Clarifications on Demolitions

  
  Praja - know. care. participate — Authority: 136
  Dear Friends,   As no more comments are forthcoming on the issues , let me try to answer all the queries raised. Q1. Sanjay V – Does not the restriction of cell phone usage is within the justifiable level of infringement of civil liberty & privacy? Q2. Mysoremath- What action is taken against the ...
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• Chevrolet Volt gets driver-activated warning system for the blind

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 161
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• Chevrolet Volt gets driver-activated warning system for the blind

  
  F-Default — Authority: 541
      Whether it’s voluntary or enforced , it seems to be a safe bet that most electric vehicles will eventually break their silence in one way or another to warn nearby pedestrians — especially the blind. Chevrolet looks to be taking a slightly different approach than most with the Volt, however, and it ...
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• Chevy Volt Equipped With Driver-Controlled Low Horn Audio Signals

  
  CarBuyersNoteBook — Authority: 491
  Electric cars are great for addressing the issues surrounding alternative power for vehicles but like anything, they are not exempt from some areas. They will be quieter and eco-friendly but the safety of disabled people may be in question. This pertains for that issue on blind people who are walking the streets. The ...
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• Cellphone-Using Pedestrians at Higher Risk of "Getting Run Over" [Danger]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 886
  First driving, now even walking: The combination of cellphone use and motion seems to be the most dangerous threat facing Americans today. Two new studies have shown that pedestrians using cellphones are significantly more likely to get smacked by a car than anybody else. A simulation indicated that older people are ...
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• Cellphone-Using Pedestrians at Higher Risk of "Getting Run Over" [Danger]

  
  F-Default — Authority: 541
    First driving, now even walking: The combination of cellphone use and motion seems to be the most dangerous threat facing Americans today. Two new studies have shown that pedestrians using cellphones are significantly more likely to get smacked by a car than anybody else. A simulation indicated that older people ...
  4 days ago

• San Francisco’s Market Street is Going Beige This Afternoon

  
  San Francisco Citizen — Authority: 528
  This is the scene near Union Square , inbound, right down the street from the latest the latest MUNI bus vs. cyclist collision. (Dude got scuffed up by an articulated 38 Geary (or whatever – it’s line number had been switched off) but he looked O.K. when they were putting him the ambulance.) Anyway, here it ...
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• Decatur’s “Brick” Crosswalks Coming In January

  
  Decatur Metro — Authority: 482
  Photo from The Decatur MinuteWith all the recent talk about pedestrians vs. motorists vs. cyclists and general crosswalk issues around the city, I thought it would be timely to remind everyone about the stamped concrete asphalt crosswalks that will soon be poured around the city.Currently Decatur has only one slightly ...
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• Bikes, trains, and pedestrians ? oh my!

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 166
  I?ve just spent the past hour reading about Austin?s Strategic Mobility Plan (or lack of sometimes..) and have some suggestions... (via davidwogan.us)
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• The Evening Dig: “Miss G Train” Edition

  
  INFRASTRUCTURIST — Authority: 560
  . A Brooklyn Museum held a beauty pageant for riders of the G Train, and two ladies and a drag queen came out on top. Click through for a slideshow of the contestants. ( Village Voice ) Highway travel is up 2.5% from last year, as many Americans resume driving and refuse to take flights for vacations. But until the ...
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• Residents rally for safer crossings after pedestrian struck, killed in Denver

  
  Planning Livable Communities — Authority: 110
  After two pedestrians were struck – one fatally – in a Denver neighborhood, officials have responded to make the crossing less dangerous. The blog Evidence Soup reports:“Although it took two years for a nearby block to convince the city to add a crosswalk, within 6 weeks our Public Works folks announced a plan ...
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• Suspect arrested in hit-and-run; UT student brain dead – Tampa Tribune

  
  Memmis.com News Agency — Authority: 169
  Tampa Tribune Suspect arrested in hit-and-run; UT student brain dead Tampa Tribune This is the intersection where Erik V. Nicoletti Cree Alisha Riley were hit about 1:15 am Saturday as they walked along West Kennedy Boulevard, ... Arrest made in hit and rush crash that injured UT student, ...
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• New pedestrian crossings in town

  
  Planning Livable Communities — Authority: 110
  A look at two upgraded pedestrian crossings in Saxonville, at the McAuliffe branch library and Potter Road/Elm Street.
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• Submissions Blast Govt Document’s Roading Blindspot

  
  Auckland Trains — Authority: 142
  More than 1500 submissions were received on the Government’s Safer Journeys discussion document  - 1300 from individuals from the public – and it’s  pleasing to note a general complaint was that the policy was too focused on a “roading business as usual approach.” A common complaint was the blinkers on ...
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• UN: Forget Terrorism Threats, Try Crossing The Road

  
  Auckland Trains — Authority: 142
  The First Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety, has opened in Moscow with some fascinating facts. 1.27 million people are killed worldwide in traffic accidents ever year Pedestrians face traffic in all directions Half of them are not in cars, but are pedestrians, motorcyclists and cyclists 50 ...
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• T.O. A to Z: X is for Scramble Crossings! (The X is silent)

  
  Posted Toronto — Authority: 655
    By Ben Kaplan, National Post It takes a deft civil engineer to turn a traffic light into a tourist attraction, but Dr. Henry Barnes from Denver, Colo., was able to do just that. His vision from the 1940s of the X or the Scramble or the Barnes Dance, as the motley pedestrian diagonal crossing was originally ...
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• It’s time to declare a pox on annoying people

  
  Thought Leader — Authority: 528
  It’s been a while since I’ve had a good bitching session about People who Do Annoying Things, and it’s high time that this oversight was rectified. So, I give you my latest list of people who deserve to be cursed with a chronic infestation of pulex irritans.First up, pedestrians. Yes, South African motorists ...
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• Warwick Intermodal Station spurs development proposal

  
  Greater City: Providence — Authority: 470
  As the intermodal station at T.F. Green rapidly works towards completion, expecting trains to arrive next year, it is already spurring development in the area in anticipation. Michael D’Ambra currently owns an asphalt plant adjacent to the train station which he plans to turn into a $300 million hotel and office ...
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