Structural Patterns

There are two things that I fear when I ride my bike around the city – taxis and cop cars, because they are both unpredictable and dangerous. This morning around 8:20am, I heard a police siren for two seconds and then a major crash followed by a second crash. When I looked out my window, I saw an undercover police car badly damaged and smoking nearing the center of the Washington and Eastern Parkway intersection. I don’t know why it kept moving as the initial hit seemed to occur at the commercial lane that runs parallel to the main lanes, but slowly moved into the main intersection, perhaps to stop traffic and stop possibility of further accidents. One thing that seemed apparent is that the police car was most likely at fault for the entire accident as it switched on it’s siren to try and catch a red light and make it through a very dangerous intersection. This regularly happens at this intersection as it’s basically three intersection in one. I hope that the police camera caught the whole thing.

What really angered me is that when accidents happen at this intersection, police, firetrucks, ambulances can take 15-20 minutes to arrive. When it was a cop car at the heart of the accident, it took three minutes to have eight cop cars, two firetrucks and two ambulances all at the intersection, it was ridiculous.

One SUV with a mother and daughter was spun into my building – 175 Eastern Pkwy.


And it was all cleaned up within an hour… amazing, the love that cops show for one another.