Hey podcast listeners, this week we're replaying an episode from last year called The Perfect

Crime.

Here are a few things that have happened since we ran the episode.

In 2014, 132 pedestrians were killed in traffic crashes in New York City, the fewest in

century.

This was after 180 pedestrians, that's just a year earlier, which was the highest number

in a decade.

The 2014 decline coincided with Mayor Bill de Blasios' embrace of a traffic safety plan

called Vision Zero and import from Sweden, which is meant to eliminate pedestrian deaths

entirely within 10 years.

Some of the elements of New York's Vision Zero, a lower default citywide speed limit,

25 miles an hour, down from 30.

The aggressive re-engineering of problematic intersections, and tougher enforcement of

some traffic laws, including some of the ones you'll hear about in this episode.

Unless you're in favor of reckless driving and dead pedestrians, you will probably think

all of this is a pretty good idea.

Let me warn you, what you're about to hear is a sick idea.

Let's say I want to kill someone.

I also don't want to go to prison, in fact I don't want to be punished at all.

So what do I do?

Well, this is one idea I have, and because I live in New York City, probably wouldn't

be very hard to pull off.

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