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I live a few blocks from here. Frances and I cross there every day around that time to go to the dog run between pier 40 and leroy st. Monday as we were waiting for the light to change to cross the street I looked at the planted divider between the roadway and the bike lane and thought how easily a car could fly into the bike lane if there were an accident. Since the next day would be halloween I decided we would skip the dog run that day. Today we did go back. The bike lane was roped off from Charleton st, but we were able to get through to the dog run. News cameras were all lined up pointing down the bike path straight to world trade...There are a lot of traffic police expediting the intersections that have needed them desperately for months. In the local coffeeshop and corner grocer no one is talking about it. With the scandals, the outrageous fortunes, the psychos like the guy in Vegas and the one in Washington with the mustard gas hair, have we become so inured to disaster and the seemingly boundless capacity for people to be evil that we hardly notice? It is as though we live in a constant state of alarm and imminent death. Everyday the particulars change while the baseline is a condition combining detachment with paranioa, except paranoia is unfounded fear and this is real - detached anxiety without the campiness of zombies or jaded pre-teens. I am putting my loft on the market. Not to run away from the terror, but to go where laissez-terrorisme is not the new normal. I don't mean to fault my fellow zombies, if we are shell-shocked it is from the shells. Nor am i giving up and surrendering the land, just aspiring to being a moving target.
So awful! Too many innocent lives lost.
One thing that bothered me is that police said he had multiple issues with police in many states, but he managed to pass all of Uber's background checks. Makes me leery of using uber when these people can get through their 'rigorous' background checks.
I usually prefer uber over cabs, but I really hate the idea of getting into a car with someone who wasn't properly vetted lol. Uber is still 'new' up here, and they made such a big fuss over how much training/background checks/etc are done.Uber doesn’t use rigorous background checks. This is what they check for: https://help.uber.com/h/6970e704-95ac-4ed3-9355-e779a86db366
If you’re leery of using the service now, wait a few years til they start using driverless vehicles, I guess. Ive used Uber all over the place and I feel a lot safer using the app (I always let someone know when I’m riding, it’s part of the app now) than I do some rando cab.