Where I live now and most places I’ve lived, this is the really scary part of being a vulnerable road user in most of the United States.
But Pike Place Market… between the cobbles, the high density, and the street convolutions to get to the pictured location, vehicular attack by senescence or willful malice would present a serious challenge. There are much softer targets and way “better” areas for confusing elderly drivers.
Or just somebody having a medical crisis in a car. I know one person who presumably fainted while driving and woke up in a hospital with severe injuries from hitting a traffic light pole.
That’s actually probably a more valid concern than a deliberate attack.
The few lonely traffic cones don’t quite look solidly reassuring…
And other than the significant measures you would have to take as protection against a possible malign attack, measures protecting against random drive-in accidents would be cheap and easy. Just put some additional mobile plant tubs at the entry of the area.
Setting aside terrorism, it just takes a confused septuagenarian in a car.
Where I live now and most places I’ve lived, this is the really scary part of being a vulnerable road user in most of the United States.
But Pike Place Market… between the cobbles, the high density, and the street convolutions to get to the pictured location, vehicular attack by senescence or willful malice would present a serious challenge. There are much softer targets and way “better” areas for confusing elderly drivers.
Or just somebody having a medical crisis in a car. I know one person who presumably fainted while driving and woke up in a hospital with severe injuries from hitting a traffic light pole.
That’s actually probably a more valid concern than a deliberate attack.
The few lonely traffic cones don’t quite look solidly reassuring…
And other than the significant measures you would have to take as protection against a possible malign attack, measures protecting against random drive-in accidents would be cheap and easy. Just put some additional mobile plant tubs at the entry of the area.