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Full-Text Articles in Law
Are Wide Streets Negligent?, Michael Lewyn
Are Wide Streets Negligent?, Michael Lewyn
Michael E Lewyn
Health And Safety Overregulation, Michael Lewyn
Health And Safety Overregulation, Michael Lewyn
Michael E Lewyn
The Criminalization Of Walking, Michael Lewyn
The Criminalization Of Walking, Michael Lewyn
Michael E Lewyn
The Criminalization Of Walking, Michael Lewyn
The Criminalization Of Walking, Michael Lewyn
Michael E Lewyn
Because walking improves human health and reduces pollution, one might think that the law should encourage walking and discourage driving But in fact, criminal law sometimes punishes walkers, in two major respects. First, state and city laws against something often referred to as “jaywalking” limit walkers’ ability to cross streets. As a result of these laws, police can fine (and even arrest) walkers. Second, bureaucrats and police sometimes interpret child neglect laws to mean that preteen children may never walk on their own, and have sometimes arrested child pedestrians' parents or sought to place the children in state care. This …
2013 Planetizen Blog Posts, Michael Lewyn
2013 Planetizen Blog Posts, Michael Lewyn
Michael E Lewyn
2008 Planetizen Blog Posts, Michael Lewyn
2008 Planetizen Blog Posts, Michael Lewyn
Michael E Lewyn
Why Pedestrian-Friendly Street Design Is Not Negligent, Michael E. Lewyn
Why Pedestrian-Friendly Street Design Is Not Negligent, Michael E. Lewyn
Michael E Lewyn
[to be published at University of Louisville Law Review] In recent decades, American state and local highway officials have built wide streets and roads designed primarily to accommodate high-speed automobile traffic. However, such high-speed streets are more dangerous for pedestrians and bicyclists than streets with slower traffic, and thus fail to adequately accommodate nondrivers. Government officials design streets for high-speed traffic partially because of their fear of tort liability. An influential street engineering manual, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials’ “Green Book”, has generally favored the construction of such high-speed streets, and transportation planners fear that if …