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| Front pager on traffic violence |
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| Focus on "distracted" or "impaired" driving |
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| December 2016 - It's always about "distracted" driving |
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| Look! A strong correlation: More driving = more death |
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And in fact, in Oregon, driving correlates strongly with death
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The best way to reduce deaths from driving is to make it easy for people to drive less or not at all.
Every time we talk about driving, whether it's about emissions, public health, safety - every time, we assume that driving is inevitable, and we talk around the fact that the strongest move we could make is to drive less.
The next factor? Reduce urban speeds.
Because we feel we have to retain our commitment to
hydraulic autoism, we are unable to recognize and act on the most important risk factors - the chief of which is the act itself of driving a big, fast, and heavy vehicle.
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| August 2015 |
Even big buildings aren't safe.
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This is the effect of pre-existing biases.
We think staring at our phones is changing everything and is the biggest problem, and we've normalized speeding traffic that kills.
So the data say the latter is a bigger problem, but the story's almost all about the former.
A while back streetsblog wrote about the effect of better transit (and less driving) on reduced traffic death -
http://usa.streetsblog.org/2016/09/08/america-has-a-terrible-traffic-safety-record-because-we-drive-too-much/
Hey, it's a brand new report from Todd Litman:
"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."
A New Traffic Safety Paradigm from the Victoria Transport Policy Institute.
So yeah, the solution for safety is fewer car trips, shorter trips, and slower trips. Maybe this will start to gain some traction!
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