We know this street design is deadly, so why do we keep building them like this?
We know this street design is deadly, so why do we keep building them like this?
We know this street design is deadly, so why do we keep building them like this?
As @seabikeblog notes: "80% of pedestrian deaths in Seattle happen on streets with multiple lanes in the same direction. So why is WSDOT building a brand new street with this dangerous design?"
https://urbanists.video/w/iLvaiPKjyfR9Kast31bGCg
walking #walkability #WalkableCities #Urbanism #UrbanPlanning @fuckcars @video
What percent of time spent by pedestrians crossing streets is on same-direction streets? If it's 80%, this blog is nonsense
Edit: The video doesn't cover it, but you can kind of see from the map I suppose. Consider a road that looks like this, where X is the car and || is the crosswalk:
---x||------In this situation, the car stops to let a pedestrian through. But now consider
----------x||--------- ---x-------||---------The person in the second car further down has a blindspot where they don't see the pedestrian, which can cause an accident