Metropolitan Planning Council’s Post

Some painful truths in here. Pedestrian safety is critically important in America because we’ve generally built our communities to be more accessible and accommodating to cars than people. I live in a community where my kids weren’t permitted to walk to elementary school, despite living close enough to do so. The only way on and off the grounds is in a vehicle. We’ve created a world where our cars can often get all the way inside the buildings we visit. Our homes have garages, our offices built on top of huge multi-story parking facilities. As such, the need for pedestrian safety starts before we even get outside. And we can’t relax our guard just because we’re on the sidewalk, which - while generally not a legal place to drive - doesn’t naturally prevent cars from using the space to park, or to detour around road blockages. Unless there are substantial barriers, cars can - and do - have access to everyplace pedestrians can go. I spent over a decade of my life working to make our roads safer and more durable. Over the past year - working with rail and transit - I’m realizing that a better way to get similar results is to just have less pavement. To oversimplify it? Fewer roads = fewer materials, reduced maintenance load, and more funds available for alternate forms of transit that reduce overall pedestrian risk and strengthen our nation’s infrastructure. Later this month I’ll take a look at pedestrian safety as it pertains to rail, but for now, the linked post about pedestrian v car is a great place to start.

The USDOT proposed updates to the Highway Safety Improvement Program, seeking public input until April 22. These changes aim to prioritize the safety of vulnerable road users, enhance comprehensive safety approaches, and address rising concerns about road safety in the United States. https://lnkd.in/gYGQXQSr #USDOT #roadsafety #publictransportation #bikesafety

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The 2024 Many Players 01 Conversation Road Safety Summit took place today with the Road Traffic Management Corporation in the Brixton Community supported by Uber. While there is so much to say on this topic or to perhaps to share the session we had today that was facilitated by Lemo Monyatsi around slower and safer streets or talk about the Mzansi Road Safety updates we provided from 2023 to '24 as seen in the posters below, there is little to say as we are not even close to the National Road Safety Strategy that calls for a 50% reduction in road crashed by 2030. But there is one thing to say is that there is a dedicated coordinated effort across all spheres of government, private sector, academia and in my sector, civil society to work together, stop with duplication and isolation and change the institutional thinking that we have to stop designing around cars, and instead for people. Tomorrow will be the second day where we will iron out resolutions. If you want to be more involved in the road safety space or have any questions or ideas, please email us at saferstreets@youngurbanists.co.za or DM me. Thanks Rehana Moosajee for your amazing curation and facilitation, and for the support from Ofentse Madisha, Refilwe Mongale. It was lovely to see Dr. Sandile Mbatha (Ph.D.) there to talk about making data freely available, ChildSafeSA for your activism and energy and others like Dr Lee Randall working on ethics to the road space, especially concerning civil engineers. Watch this space. #SaferStreets #SafePassage #StreetExperiments

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