#pedestrian safety

[jakegardiner]

Obsessed with Vision Zero Vancouver’s energy

#pedestrian safety #transportation planning #vision zero #emotional support brick #safe streets for all #dot

[winterthebeau]

american auto industry be like

#auto industry #cars #pedestrians #suvs #suv #stellantis #jeep #dodge #ram #pedestrian safety #meme #196 #r196 #r/196 #muscle twink #(last one is an inside joke)

[threadatl]

This is an excellent article on a sad topic: pedestrian deaths are rising.

QUOTE:

"Nationwide, the suburbanization of poverty in the 21st century has meant that more lower-income Americans who rely on shift work or public transit have moved to communities built around the deadliest kinds of roads: those with multiple lanes and higher speed limits but few crosswalks or sidewalks. The rise in pedestrian fatalities has been most pronounced on these arterials, which can combine highway speeds with the cross traffic of more local roads."

In the suburbs of Atlanta (and other metros) and in the city, these wide arterial roads are deadly for walking. Meanwhile, the most walkable places in the city are increasingly unaffordable.

It's obvious that we need a massive shift on a huge scale when it comes to the walkability of our built environments, and in the equitability of access to pedestrian safety.

It will take many steps, big and small, in our policies and investments in order to get there. Some of those small steps will need to happen on your street, and in your neighborhood. Please support them and please speak up when others don't.

#urbanism #urban planning #city planning #urban design #walkable cities #pedestrian deaths #pedestrian safety #urbanismo #urbanisme

[thebreakfastgod]

America's Roads: Dangerous by Design

#the link leads to the pdf that i got all these pics + graphics from #very interesting and informative and written in very clear and easy to understand language #please read please reblog this is something im passionate about #mine #pedestrian safety #car centric infrastructure #walkable cities #urbanism #public transportation #urban design

[allthecanadianpolitics]

More than 1.5 million views on a road safety video might be considered good, if they weren't accompanied by comments such as "delete this," "shame on you" and "this is brutal."

Richmond RCMP posted a public service announcement video Friday morning on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, that received such a response. 

[...]

But advocates and many commenters on X argue the video unhelpfully focuses on pedestrian behaviour when drivers and road design ought to be the focus of safety efforts.

"Every year we get public safety campaigns that effectively victim blame. They put blame on vulnerable road users — outside cars," said Lucy Maloney with Vision Zero, a group which aims to stop traffic deaths.

Full article

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

#cdnpoli #canada #canadian politics #canadian news #canadian #richmond #british columbia #BC #RCMP #richmond rcmp #traffic safety #road safety #pedestrian safety #pedestrians

[atlurbanist]

Classism. Racism. Ageism. Ableism. Climate denial.

No matter how we rationalize the wasteful destruction of nature through car-scaled urban sprawl, or how we rationalize the act of robbing people of chances to live with dignity unless they can drive, those evils are at the core.

#atlanta #urbanism #pedestrian safety #walkability #urban planning #urban design #car-centric developmnent #urban sprawl #suburban sprawl #sprawl #urban development #urbanismo #urbanisme

[atlantathecity]

The police report tells us that a 34-year-old woman was struck by a vehicle while walking here, at Freedom Pkwy & N Highland Ave, on March 29 a 8:30pm. She later died in the hospital.

But there is much more to these tragic stories than the soulless police log: a life lost, friends and family left to grieve, and a vehicle driver who has to live with their own grief.

Slowing traffic is crucial for city streets with pedestrians. Through our urban design and policies, we have to get to a place where all drivers are travelling slow enough that they can brake to a stop before killing someone.

The result of failing to do so is a trail of tragedies that society has become perversely comfortable with.

Let's stop being comfortable with this violence and start being open to street designs and policies that slow cars down.

#atlanta #pedestrian safety

[chaptertwo-thepacnw]

suspense, lois weber |1913|

#gif #suspense #1913 #silent film #lois weber #cigarette smoker #pedestrian safety

[gwydionmisha]

#American Drivers #Infrastructure #Urban Design #Pedestrian Safety #News

[cazort]

I see a lot of posts urging new, younger drivers to drive carefully, and I'm like yeah, that's good.

But one angle that I think is under-emphasized is that it is critically important for drivers to slow down and be mindful of pedestrians and cyclists in any area where there might be people on foot, such as any business district (this includes both parking lots in suburban areas, urban downtowns, and main-street-style districts in small towns and suburbs) and in any residential area.

Keep in mind there may be children, elderly, or disabled people, all of whom may have problems with mobility and/or perception (such as hearing or visual impairment.) Visual impairment can be a person being blind or having poor vision, or it could be a young child who is too short to see above parked cars.

If you drive fast or recklessly in these areas? Guess what? You are forcing a culture of stress and danger on other people, and you are contributing to our society being an unwelcoming place to pedestrians.

Yeah, good design is important and our society has moved way too far in the direction of car-oriented design. But I have also seen people driving aggressively and recklessly even in areas where everything is clearly marked. I live in a residential neighborhood with kids and sometimes people go 40mph up our street. I see people roll over stop lines and fail to come to a stop at all in urban neighborhoods with lots of pedestrians. This stuff is borderline violent, it's basically threatening the people on the street with a deadly weapon.

You wouldn't go around waving a gun around and pointing it at people, now, would you?

So don't do the same thing with a car. If you're driving a car, you're driving a deadly weapon, and just as you would keep a loaded gun pointed at the ground unless you were actively wanting to threaten or kill someone, when you are in your car, you need to give pedestrians a wide berth at intersections and crosswalks, stopping behind stop lines and always yielding to pedestrians even if you think they are out-of-line (like a person crossing in the middle of the street or against the timing of a light.) The power disparity between a person on foot and a person in a car is scarily huge, it's a matter of life and death. I know 2 people who have been struck and killed by cars while walking on foot in urban areas where there were clearly marked crosswalks. For every person who dies, there are countless more who are injured, and for every person injured there are hundreds who get stressed out by near-collisions when they may have to jump out of the way of an inattentive driver (this has happened to me several times.)

Please people, be mindful of what you are doing when you get behind the wheel of a car. If you can't handle the responsibility, maybe don't drive.

#driving #pedestrian safety #pedestrian #walkability #ableism

[rjalker]

me: *takes pictures of the crosswalk to report the ADA violations since they last changed things*

Me: *immediately almost gets run over in the exact crosswalk while I have the right of way*

wow it's almost like crosswalks will never be safe unless the people in the gods damned cars are actually forced to not try to kill people!!!!!

#ableism #cripplepunk #car culture #pedestrian safety

[saruvanthewhite]

If you drive a car truck or other wheeled vehicle and you lay on your horn at a pedestrian in a crosswalk where you have just run the light, congratulations; You are an asshole of the highest order.

This has been a polite PSA. 

#walking in SF #pedestrian safety #rude drivers #horn blasting #unnecessary waste #human trash

[forthepleasureofmylife]

New York City

Photo: Dieter Krehbiel

#Sidewalk #legs #beauty #Signs #photography #Black and White #Street Photography #green eyes 55 #dieter krehbiel #source:forthepleasureofmylife #urban #urban life #2010s #black and white photography #New York City #new york #source: forthepleasureofmylife #manhattan #pedestrian #pedestrian safety #high contrast #high grain #photographers on tumblr

[threadatl]

Mapping project highlights disturbing rise in pedestrian deaths in Atlanta

In 2022, over 35,000 crashes occurred on Atlanta streets. 548 of these crashes involved people walking, biking, and rolling. 38 of these crashes resulted in the deaths of people walking.

Propel ATL has released a new story map, "38 Reasons Why," about Atlanta’s disturbing increase in pedestrian traffic deaths. These trends also highlight a glaring disparity: People walking in Black neighborhoods and in low-income communities are more likely to lose their lives to traffic violence.

See the story map:

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/35c4bb6181a64cc7b820816973d2b5a6

#atlanta #pedestrian safety #pedestrian deaths #traffic safety #urban planning #street safety #transportation planning

[postorbital]

She wore a foaming wave as a rain cape, a swirl of absorbing water. When the storm was done, she deposited the water in a safe place - an unblocked drain, a field, an existing waterway. Sometimes she threw it at a rude motorist who didn’t respect pedestrians.

#rain cape #foaming wave #urban fantasy #simple magic #water witch #wizards cloak #water management #pedestrian safety #like attracts like

[onlytiktoks]

#tiktok #tw death mention #san francisco #san francisco ca #california #pedestrian #pedestrian safety #tw police mention