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Rush hour in Copenhagen, one of the early leaders for Vision Zero design. Image by Mikael Colville-Andersen licensed under Creative Commons. In our first post, we outlined how, six years in, DC’s Vision Zero program can only be described as a failure. While there have been some marginal improvements to the city’s transportation infrastructure, it has been nowhere near enough to slow the number of deaths on our streets in fact, they’ve been increasing. If we are going to engage in a genuine effort to eliminate traffic deaths and injuries, we need bold, system-wide solutions that tackle the District’s biggest safety concerns. We must disrupt an inequitable, environmentally unsound, and car-centered status quo. ....
Wide, fast-moving arterial roads are particularly dangerous for pedestrians. Pennsylvania Avenue by Mike Maguire licensed under Creative Commons. It’s an unfortunate fact about DC that in neighborhoods where car ownership is low, the rate of pedestrian crashes is high. You may have seen this chart making the rounds on Twitter a few weeks ago, showing a strong inverse correlation: Who drives cars: Who gets hit by cars: pic.twitter.com/dAdjC10XnO Charlotte Lee | 미국아줌마 (@cljack) January 21, 2021 You may think (as a lot of people did) that it’s obvious that “more people walking around” leads directly to “more people getting hit by cars.” But even if you set aside the countless cities around the world with lower rates of both car ownership and pedestrian crashes, and look specifically at DC, this doesn’t hold up. The main driver of the disparity between crashes in high and low car ownership neighborhoods isn’t the amount of time people spend walki ....