I live on a dangerous street. Four people have been killed in recent years, three in a fifteen month period. My neighbors were up in arms and so I created a community website, Safe Westside, to focus the energy on engineering, education and enforcement solutions. Within 24 hours we had collected over 1000 signatures on a petition, arraigned a meeting with city hall, and increased police presence. The site was built using off-the-shelf open source software, Google Analytics and Feedburner for email distribution. The site continues to be a community information resource for the on-going efforts to make the West side of Los Angeles safer for drivers, pedestrians and cyclists.
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