The US experienced a staggering 25% increase in the rate of deaths per 100 million vehicle miles driven last year. The highest increase in a century of records.
.@LorraineMMartin Together with leadership and action we can make it so no more families have to know this pain.
There are cities as big as Houston and LA that have committed to vision zero but also smaller cities like Macon, Georgia and Ithaca, New York.
"We believe #zerotrafficdeaths is not only the right goal, the ethical goal but also an achievable goal." @leahbike
'Traffic deaths in the U.S. are equivalent to a mid-sized plane crashing and killing everyone on board every single day." @leahbike
We've become complacent.
"Rarely do we hear about traffic safety as a public health epidemic even those its one of the leading killers. We want to change that." @leahbike of @Visionzeronet
"Older adults are 60% more likely to be killed while drivers while walking. If we're not building a system that is safe for our youth or seniors, we've got to do better." @leahbike
"We get the results we design for. Over the last few generations, we have really designed for speed rather than safety." @leahbike
"We have a historic opportunity not only to #BuildBackBetter but to build back safer. And we really believe these two things go hand in hand." @leahbike
Here is how we can reduce traffic deaths 75% right now, says @leahbike from auto safety tech, to safer streets and better emergency response + alternatives to driving.
It's people like me who pay the highest price for the federal government's failure to act on traffic safety. In his memory I fight to prevent others from suffering.
"Ending this crisis requires political will. It requires us to fight back to make change happen." @amylcohen of @Fam4SafeStreets
"We need @potus to direct his administration to lead the way from complacency to action." @amylcohen
"Transportation is a social determinant of health."
"We have to pull back the layers and not just ask questions about unsafe road design but how these neighborhoods can to be located where they are located and who benefitted."
Ok, transportation nerds. Let’s geek out and talk about data for a bit.
You can’t fix what you don’t know and that means tracking, measuring, and collecting information about all things traffic. Unfortunately, data (as with other things in traffic safety) can be lacking or have huge gaps in what we gather or ask.
What are some of your fav data sources to help make the case for #ZeroTrafficDeaths? We’ll go first- recently inspired (to do more) and dismayed (that we haven't seen progress) by the findings in the new edition of @SmartGrowthUSA Dangerous by Design. smartgrowthamerica.org/dangerous-by-d…