. >> i'm howard bloom berg i think a general thing that should be looked at is the effective crossing time of pedestrians. it turns out that in fact the pedestrian transit times are being compressed and one of the major reasons for that is large vehicles tend to drive slowly through intersections and they can enter the intersection at the end of the yellow and in fact by the time they cross all of the crosswalks there's about 2 or so seconds often taken off the time that a pedestrian can cross and i've noticed that perhaps one of the reasons that or one of the evidences really that pedestrians are having a difficult time is in 2014 looking at the traffic fatalities over half of them were considered the fault of the pedestrian themselves and all of the bicycle fatalities were considered the fault of the bicyclists and all of the motorcycle fatalities were considered the fault of the motorcycle so i think i'm not trying to blame things this is going against the usual concept that two-thirds of the accidents are due to drivers but we seemed to have a a shift last year and i don't know th