didn't they used to be wealthy neighborhoods at one time??? before urban renewal or whateverDepends into which state Montreal will be annexed.
What is so shocking about this fact. Low income cities do not have the money to put into infrastructure, such as sidewalks, cross walks and other traffic safety measures. That would seem to be pretty darn obvious. Maybe I am missing the main point of the article.
But here is the part that is totally brilliant:
“These results are part of a growing body of literature that shows road design has an impact on safety”
Now I never would have guessed that.
Poor = Black
Don’t the doom and gloom hand wringers know we have figured out their code-talk?
I’m so old, I remember when Scientific American was a journal of SCIENCE.
Black people like to walk in the street even if there are sidewalks. I wonder...
There are many, many factors that come into play regarding accident statistics, with street design being only one of them. As soon as I saw "Montreal" in the title I knew where this was going. That's an old city with many narrow streets and a driving population filled with people of marginal driving skills, so it's no surprise that pedestrians (the particular group discussed in detail in the article) don't fare well in the older parts of the city.
didn't they used to be wealthy neighborhoods at one time??? before urban renewal or whateverPoor neighborhoods tend to be older, where streets and buildings date back decades before wide streets were common, before digital traffic signs and handicap ramps. Wealthier tends to be newer and/or revitalized and updated.
I know this is in Montreal, but there are streets in NW Austin (leftover hippies and liberals) that have the worst streets in the city. I’ve been on country field / dirt roads that were smoother.
***I wonder how many trillions of dollars Barry will want after the election to fix this inequity****
It’s called TRAFFIC JUSTICE you reisust you!
Maybe, just maybe, population density has something to do with it. let’s try mandating that all urban residences be single family with 2 acre zoning and see what happens : ]
