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[QUOTE="shandeezy7, post: 5117272, member: 720"]
I'm sorry, but I do not connect increased car-bike/pedestrian accidents on abolishing required parking minimums. I've lived in Buffalo for a decade (before the parking minimum rule was changed). I lived in the Elmwood Village, which had/has cars parked on every single street up and down it. The actual problem that needs to be addressed is the enforcement of current traffic laws.

I feared for my life every single time I went out for a run in my neighborhood, and it wasn't because of the cars parked on the street. It was because of the people running red lights (literally every light that turned red would have at least one car speed through it), the excessive speeding (cars going 50+ mph in 30 mph zones) and the general recklessness of drivers. And never once would you see a car get pulled over - even when doing these things literally in front of a cop. People know they won't get pulled over regardless of what they do, so of course they will be more reckless and of course pedestrians and cyclists are going to be the ones to pay the price.

Sure, bad design plays a part in things. But watch what happens when municipalities try to re-design streets to be more pedestrian/bike friendly. People LOSE THEIR MINDS, because we are such a car culture that we can't fathom anyone getting preferential treatment over our precious automobiles. For the last 50 years, we've designed cities through transit that caters exclusively to the automobile, and then wonder why more and more people die.
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