Marshall Fritz conceived of SafeNiki a decade before it was technically possible: January 24, 1994, the day the Northridge Earthquake destroyed enough freeways to give Los Angeles even worse traffic congestion.

Now, in 2008, mobile phones are everywhere; the Internet is everywhere; and many people are accustomed to doing business with web-based total strangers.

(Marshall borrowed the idea of using the mobile phone as the basic coordinating tool from an English firm. You can see their ideas at www.Texxi.com and www. Texxi.info.)

The SafeNiki is purely conjectural as this was written on May 1, 2007, just prior to a trip to Russia. There Marshall took 5 chastnik rides with his surprised guide, two without a guide just to try it without a translator (still got to destination), and even interviewed an English-speaking chastnik driver and a V.P. of one of their bus companies. All information confirmed some of the assumptions underlying the conjecture of the entire concept.

The freeway offramp shown above is on the westbound I-10 in

 Los Angeles. Marshall took this ramp to his office on Wilshire Blvd.

from 1971-1980. It was usually congested. It still is.

Marshall Fritz
Director, SafeNiki Exploratory Committee

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