7 ways to make pedestrian friendly streets

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7 ways to make pedestrian friendly streets

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04-01-2015, 03:04 PM

(04-01-2015, 01:12 PM)Pheidippides Wrote: This is just normalizing a car-centric behaviour and environments by ostracizing a segment of the population. Really it comes down to what the population and society puts value and priority on.

Ya think? More than 270 000 pedestrians killed on roads each year

270,000/365 ~= 740 deaths per day. That's several wide body commercial airlines per day--every day. Yet how often does this make the news, let alone for several days per incident.

Also FWIW The World’s Most Deadly Cities For Pedestrians. It's interesting that Copenhagen came in at 12 and beating New York City. [Must be all those damned cyclists Big Grin