Opinion: Mayor Kenney needs to reinvest in Vision Zero
WHYY By Despite making bike lanes more visible, cars are still blocking them. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) Empty streets don’t mean open streets or safe streets. Philadelphia’s empty roadways in 2020 have resulted in a year that was — in the words of Kelley Yemen, the city’s Complete Streets director — “horrific” with respect to traffic violence. I can’t agree more. To date, more than 140 people have been killed on the city’s streets — a 63% increase since 2019. At least 45 of those killed were people walking, and five were riding bicycles. This tragically high level of traffic...
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