tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666195730630249633.post2604633929575582..comments2024-03-25T17:49:41.408-07:00Comments on Salem Breakfast on Bikes: Traffic Violence Story Misses Biggest Ingredients: Too Much, too Fast DrivingSalem Breakfast on Bikeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15618055627843335993noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666195730630249633.post-18013820347976490132017-12-28T11:41:09.161-08:002017-12-28T11:41:09.161-08:00Hey, it's a brand new report from Todd Litman:...Hey, it's a brand new report from Todd Litman:<br /><br />"<i>The current paradigm favors targeted safety programs that reduce special risks such as youth, senior and impaired driving. A new paradigm recognizes that all vehicle travel imposes risks, and so supports vehicle travel reduction strategies such as more multimodal planning, efficient transport pricing, Smart Growth development policies, and other TDM strategies.</i>"<br /><br /><a href="http://www.vtpi.org/ntsp.pdf" rel="nofollow">A New Traffic Safety Paradigm</a> from the Victoria Transport Policy Institute.<br /><br />So yeah, the solution for safety is fewer car trips, shorter trips, and slower trips. Maybe this will start to gain some traction!Salem Breakfast on Bikeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15618055627843335993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666195730630249633.post-51823130628826502432017-02-15T11:57:14.958-08:002017-02-15T11:57:14.958-08:00A while back streetsblog wrote about the effect of...A while back streetsblog wrote about the effect of better transit (and less driving) on reduced traffic death - <br /><br />http://usa.streetsblog.org/2016/09/08/america-has-a-terrible-traffic-safety-record-because-we-drive-too-much/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666195730630249633.post-32803511869547802392017-02-09T12:17:22.473-08:002017-02-09T12:17:22.473-08:00This is the effect of pre-existing biases.
We thi...This is the effect of pre-existing biases.<br /><br />We think staring at our phones is changing everything and is the biggest problem, and we've normalized speeding traffic that kills.<br /><br />So the data say the latter is a bigger problem, but the story's almost all about the former.Evanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01011420959025344982noreply@blogger.com