Angie is starting her conversation on the pedestrian crisis in America.
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Angie points out that the rise of SUV sales is a contributing factor to the rise in pedestrian deaths in America since the recession.
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The trends are likely to see bigger vehicles hitting the roads and probably people.
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The size and weight of SUVs should be obvious to their relative danger to people rolling, walking, and biking.
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There are some absolutely stunning statistics in this talk.
Native Americans have 4x higher fatality rate as pedestrians.
Every week *children* are hit and killed by cars....
Many of them killed by their own parents, backing up in the driveway.
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Time of day is a big factor in pedestrian deaths. Over 75% happen at night.
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Detroit had many broken streetlights several years ago, but decided it was time to replace them. Adding new LED lights to streets lead to a massive decline in pedestrian deaths, particularly at night.
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Moving to QA and the second question is about congestion pricing.
We just learned today that the mayor's study on this has some leftover money.
The recommendation: bring in folks affected by the policy to recommend equitable solutions.
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-The scooter launch is now “Spring 2020” instead of January
-The city has ~$470k leftover for congestion pricing work + plans one new staffer for public engagement on congestion pricing
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Did you know that Europe is going to require speed limiters on cars in a couple years???
Also apparently Cleveland geofences their scooters!?!? To limit speed
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The next question is basically how we coalition build?
This is a good opportunity to shoutout who are a powerful force and are tackling issues often de-prioritized by many urbanists, like scooter / bikeshare issues.
This year also saw form.
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It's already clear that has made huge progress.
Angie talked about being a good ally, and that's exactly right.
transitriders.org/blog/2019/10/0