At calming traffic hopefully limiting speed limits is a part of that strategy and one other bit of information that you gave besides the london uk study showing that over the the 20year period reducing traffic collisions by forty percent in their efforts i think thats an important piece of data and i think you said that study found that by reducing speed limits by one Miles Per Hour reduces the number of collisions by 5 percent. That is correct chair mar it was a separate study but it found looking at a number of citys experienced a reduction of 1 mile per hour in average speed resulted in a reduction. Its not as precise as that when we looked at the case studies but it was in that ballpark so it was interesting to see experience supporting that formula. And to supervisor camposs question to look at state legislation so our office is working with the mta but also our City Attorneys Office and beginning with the state and i wanted to highlight the case study for Portland Oregon for auto
You can continue the conversation on twitter as well. You can send us an email as well. And are some of the stories how they are playing this week. Here is usa today. Fires andure of the california. 100 of the state of california is in danger of fire. The lead story is about the Net Neutrality vote at the fcc yesterday. Battle for the internet begins is the headline. They lead with Eric Shin Seki up on capitol hill. He is grilled over care. The New York Times leads with quiet unrestrkers in cities in east ukraine. Thousands of Steel Workers fanned out on thursday, establishing control over the program and militants who until recently had seemed to be consolidating their grip on power. By late thursday, minors and steelworkers had deployed and at least five cities, including the regional capital. They had not become the dominant force of that they were in the second largest city. The lead story in the New York Times. Wall street journal leads with Net Neutrality. Up tolls proposal sets
Offitsis, ariel sharon has died. The deck rated ex general and leader has left an indelible mark on the mid east, he passed away in a tel aviv hospital. He was 85 years old. In 1984 at the tender age of 13, he joined the underground Para Military force where he fought in the battle for jerusalem during israels war for independence. In 1967 he was in battle again, commanding a division during the 6day war. During the yon space kippur war, they surrounded the Egyptian Third Army which turned the tide of the army. He was appointed defense minister in 1981 just in time for israel to invade lebanon in 1982. A commission indirectly found the Defense Force responsible for a massacre of palestinian simpleians, eventually leading to shareons reluctant resignation. He stays a political staged a comeback in 2001, winning a victory to become israels 11th Prime Minister. The he ordered the withdraw of the military along with settlers from the gaza strip as part of a disengagement plan. Then, on jan
More raisely wrote to recently wrote to the deputy or acting secretary of the have. A asking for explanation in apparent tripling in wait times in connecticut and in fact elsewhere around the country. The increase in wait times and, those wait times delayed longer than 30 days that seem to have tripled in connecticut, quadrupled elsewhere. Will you commit to me that you will provide a response to that letter . If confirmed i will provide a response but knowing sloan gibson the way i do, you will get a response. Im hoping that response will being imminent, not sometime in the indefinite future. Thats my hope as well. Thank you. The other area of gave concern to me specifically of connecticut was care for womens veterans. I hope that will be a priority for you that womens care for veterans in the va facility in new haven, whether result of trauma connected to Sexual Assault or battlefield pts will be a priority for you . Its a priority and a growing priority. The number of women going in
Accomplices ended up trying to stop the investigation. They tried to stop the criminal investigation into what had happened. When they say about watergate the coverup was worse than the crime, this is what thats about. It was spelled out in the first article of impeachment brought against nixon. Richard m. Nixon using the powers of his office engaged personally and through his close subordinates interfering or endeavoring to interfere with the conduct of investigations by the department of justice, the federal bureau of investigation, the office of Watergate Special prosecution force and congressional committees. Endeavoring to interfere. That was the first article of impeachment against nixon. Obstruction of justice. In the aftermath of watergate, in the aftermath of nixons resignation, in the aftermath of that National Political disaster, there were a bunch of political reforms. And one of the reforms was a structural, basically technical fix to head off some of the sins outlined in