Time Changes, the Silent Pedestrian Killer
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto 
on 11. 6.07
Image Credit Spacing
According to a study by two Carnegie Mellon scientists, the rate of pedestrians being struck by cars increases a whopping 186% in the two weeks following a time change.
According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Professors Paul Fischbeck and David Gerard have made a study of traffic fatalities that shows pedestrians walking during the evening rush hour are nearly three times more likely to be struck and killed by cars in the weeks after the fall time change.
“It’s astonishing,” Dr. Gerard said of the data. “It’s particularly worse right at the switch date, [when the average increases] two people a day for the next couple weeks, until the adjustment is made.” ::Spacing
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daylight savings time really bites.
npr reported that the candy industries lobbied heavily for many years for the time change to be effective post-halloween so they could make more monies on the trick or treaters.... meh.
On the day of the Spring time change last year, during my (public-transport) commutes to and from work I saw not 1 but 2 people simply pass out! One on a train and one, who injured his head quite badly, in the street.
The time change is just jet-lag twice a year. It's so last century.
"Daylight Savings" is a worthless and pointless hassle.
I love daylight savings, and actually want a two-stage system, with the clocks an hour ahead most of the year and two hours ahead during the summer.
Who needs daylight wasted on sleeping in the morning? Enjoy the long summer days and spend time with family, outside, after work.