Virginia Tech professor rycalder argues that not holding risky drivers accountable is dangerous.
spoke with Calder to better understand the role of traffic violations and enforcement in road safety for drivers and pedestrians:I have a background in engineering, and a lot of my work revolves around the interaction between engineered systems and human health, and a lot of work around civil infrastructure and green energy transition.
In my opinion, the issue of payment or non-payment is almost separate from the fact that DC has all this data on people that are routinely going 25 miles over the speed limit and running red lights, and there’s no method of intervening in them. One of the things that I was so outraged by—and what kind of sparked my involvement—was the fact that various DC Council and executive offices in DC have cited equity in order to justify inaction on traffic violence.
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