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As part of an ongoing study of the safety impacts of roundabouts, Utah State University-based researchers Patrick Singleton and Nirajan Poudel surveyed 49 studies from roughly a dozen countries and concluded that, on the aggregate, roundabouts may actually increase crashes between bicyclists and drivers — and in some cases, they increase serious injuries and deaths of people on two wheels, too.
Roundabout Performance Is Mixed for Cyclists
ggwash.org
Segregation is too small a concept to encompass the reality lived by those caught up in Jim Crow. With the end of slavery, in which owners exploited laborers by owning their persons, employers commanded labor by controlling access to the means of labor, subsistence, and livelihood.
Racecraft
Barbara J. Fields, Karen Fields
Since the 1960s, the share of highway spending funded by user revenue (mostly gas taxes) has declined from better than 70 percent to less than 50 percent, the report shows. In 2012, taxpayers — not highway users, but taxpayers — provided $69 billion for highways nationwide.
You Don't Drive? Doesn't Matter: You'll Still Pay at Least $1,100 a Year So Others Can
Patrick Kerkstra
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