It is a fallacious argument for them to say safety would decrease without cars nearby — not necessarily because of the idea that an area with fewer witnesses around isn’t more dangerous in theory — but because nobody in a car would stop to help a pedestrian anyway.
Also the cars plow into people and murder them, but I digress.
It is a fallacious argument for them to say safety would decrease without cars nearby — not necessarily because of the idea that an area with fewer witnesses around isn’t more dangerous in theory — but because nobody in a car would stop to help a pedestrian anyway.
Also the cars plow into people and murder them, but I digress.
Yes. I believe this has been well known since at least the 1960s, as I think Jane Jacobs wrote about it in “death and life of great American cities”.
Cars remove people from the community. A driver cruising along at 25+ mph isn’t going to see much, and stopping is far more difficult than on foot.