Brent ToderianMar 1
“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/helsinki-no-traffic-death-roads-eu-accident-finland-driving-transport/
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death

The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.

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@BrentToderian The hardest part of this idea is getting people to drive at that speed. They certainly don’t obey the speed limits here despite automated speed cameras etc. When my city had a population of around 3 million there was a slogan, “let’s declare war on 1034”, that being the road toll. Now we are some 5 million and our road toll is around 300. Still not zero. But I think Finns are probably more socially-minded than our lot.
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@original_peterm @BrentToderian some might argue that pedestrians have learned to watch out for speeding cars on crosswalks.

To be fair, maybe every country views their driving culture as being the worse one, but we do have our share of problems.

Luckily Helsinki is taking lessons from school street initiatives and is going to build one next year - as a trial though.