I tend to avoid #NewYearsResolutions, but not this year.
In 2024, I resolve to push back every single time someone uses the term #VRU, or #VulnerableRoadUser.
It's a transportation catchall for "humans not safely ensconsed inside a motor vehicle," and it's lazy, inaccurate, offensive, and counterproductive.
@wayemason @sps Ah, good point. Presumably that's the purview of the RMV?
It would be good to have a #VulnerableRoadUser framing in HRM comms too - the "share the road" language really doesn't cut it when the sharing is so inequitable. Not sure how that can be influenced but I would be very happy to help with it!
@dankennedy_nu news to me, too.
I wish legislators would focus on fixing the ways roads are constructed rather than blaming the victim (#VulnerableRoadUser).
We need to focus on vulnerability in the system not the users.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214140521002504?via%3Dihub
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