Florida remains the deadliest state for people walking. You'd think the state Dept. of Transportation might treat that fact as an all-hands-on-deck emergency. You'd be wrong. Staggeringly incoherent, hand-wavy, buck-passing response from .
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"The report considers select data points." Yes, "number of people killed by drivers" is a select data point. How unfair of to focus on that in its report on people being killed by drivers. #DangerousByDesign
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"Safety is at the root of all we do, and I am proud that the NHTSA recently recognized Florida’s robust pedestrian and bicycle safety program as a national gold standard program," says FDOT secretary.
Here's a photo of an FDOT bike facility near me.
Now to be fair to FDOT: Florida's land-use pattern is such a disaster that most of our cities would simply cease to function if drivers actually had to travel at safe speeds—everything is laid out to require long-distance car travel on fast roads to accomplish basic daily tasks.
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Simply redesigning roads to slow traffic to 20-30 mph, absent any reckoning with land use, would be an absolute political and practical non-starter. This is a huge, generational challenge! But the shameful lack of leadership from FDOT doesn't help.
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Is FDOT willing to acknowledge that Florida is the worst place in the US to walk not because of demographic or weather factors, but because Florida has thousands of roads that look like this? So far all signs point to no. strongtowns.org/journal/2020/2
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The bike lane is perfectly safe. Then it ended, and it was up to the cyclist how to continue!
“You see, it’s safe because the design clearly sends the message to people with bikes to stay far, far away from this death trap.”