“Aren’t you scared?” people ask Terry Bilsland when they learn he lives in Wellington Heights.
They’ve got a mental image of his central Cedar Rapids neighborhood as a bullet-riddled war zone — not this tree-lined street where historic homes offer front porches like so many open arms.
“This is the majority of Wellington Heights,” Bilsland told me [...]
Posts Tagged ‘public safety’
6/3 column: Neighborhood offers more than crime
Posted in Crime and Punishment, Gazette Columns, tagged Crime, media, public safety, Terry Bilsland, Wellington Heights, Zuiko Redding on June 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The enemy is distraction, not the cell phone
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged public safety on January 23, 2009 | Comments Off
I’m working on Saturday’s column about why cell phone bans are stupid, and ran into a one-pager by John D. Lee, director of Human Factors Research at the National Advanced Driving Simulator here in Iowa City. Here’s some of what he had to say:
Drivers’ surprisingly limited attentional capacity makes them vulnerable to distraction—people cannot look at or [...]
