Zack Subin 🏳️‍🌈

The U.S. is an outlier in failing to make road safety improvements. Pedestrians and people of color bear the brunt due to street design that prioritizes moving cars through neighborhoods rather than people living in them.

#urbanism #StreetsForPeople

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/04/26/opinion/road-deaths-racial-gap.html

Opinion | American Road Deaths Show an Alarming Racial Gap

Why dangerous streets are concentrated in minority neighborhoods, and what to do about it.

The New York Times
Apr 26, 2023 at 3:34pmWeb
Show threadlisa cApr 27, 2023
@zack_subin I won't stop working for better streets, but it feels like no matter what we do we make little progress against the 🛻🚘
Show threadZack Subin 🏳️‍🌈Apr 27, 2023
@lmc some places in the US are making progress at least: https://www.curbed.com/2022/06/hoboken-traffic-deaths-none-vision-zero-streets.html and https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-12-28/it-s-been-a-deadly-year-on-us-roads-except-in-this-city.
Show threadZack Subin 🏳️‍🌈Apr 27, 2023
@lmc (Jersey City and Hoboken)
Show threadlisa cApr 28, 2023
@zack_subin my friend was back in Hoboken for the first time in about two decades not long ago, and was shocked/amazed at what they've done there.
Show threadFrank Bennett 🇯🇵Apr 27, 2023
@zack_subin The thing is, though, that the "good" roads with fewer fatalities also suck.