Thursday, September 8, 2011
Friday, September 2, 2011
Glendale Drivers: Still Horrible
Allstate Insurance has just released their annual report ranking the relative traffic safety of the 200* largest cities in the country, and Glendale has maintained its ranking as the third most dangerous city in the country to in which to drive. As a Glendale resident, you are 80.8 percent MORE likely to be involved in a collision than the average resident of the 200 largest cities in America. In the 2011 report, the statistical average interval for a Glendale resident to be involved in a car accident was a mere 5.5 years - almost a year sooner than the Glendale's 2005 average of 6.3 years.
If you live in the safest city, Fort Collins, Colorado, you are 28.6% LESS likely to be in an accident than the average resident of the 200 largest cities, and the interval between accidents for the average resident is 14 years. The only cities with worse statistics than Glendale are Baltimore and Washington D.C.Here are Glendale's rankings for the last five years:
- 2005 rank: 191/years between accidents: 6.3
- 2006 rank: 192/years between accidents: 6.1
- 2007 rank: 194/years between accidents: 6.0
- 2008 rank: 192/years between accidents: 5.9
- 2009 rank: 191/years between accidents: 5.7
- 2010 rank: 191/years between accidents: 5.5
- 2011 rank: 191/years between accidents: 5.5
*I wondered why Allstate claimed to survey 200 cities but only list rankings for 193. I called Allstate and they said that they did indeed survey 200 cities, but in some of them they had recently entered the local market and did not have enough Allstate customers to make up a statistically meaningful sample. So Glendale is ranked 191 out of 193, not 191 out of 200.
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Forest Lawn: "Half In Love With Easeful Death"
"Nature will re-assert herself and the seasons gently obliterate the vast, deserted suburb. Its history will pass from memory to legend until, centuries later, as we have supposed, the archaeologists prick their ears at the cryptic references in the texts of the twentieth century to a cult which once flourished on this forgotten strand; of the idol Oscar - sexless image of infertility - of the great Star Goddesses who were once noisily worshipped there in a Holy Wood.
...their steps will inevitably tend northward to what was once Glendale, and there they will encounter, on a gentle slope among embosoming hills, mellowed but still firm-rooted as the rocks, something to confound all the accepted generalizations, a necropolis of the age of the Pharaohs, created in the middle of the impious twentieth century, the vast structure of Forest Lawn Memorial Park."
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