{"id":11382,"date":"2023-08-06T14:16:32","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T14:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11382"},"modified":"2023-08-06T14:16:32","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T14:16:32","slug":"why-pedestrian-deaths-in-the-us-are-at-a-40-year-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11382","title":{"rendered":"Why pedestrian deaths in the US are at a 40-year high"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“There\u2019s no single explanation for why it\u2019s getting more dangerous to walk on US roads, but there are a few major contributing factors. One is deadly road design<\/a>. In the decades after World War II, new communities emerged, centered on the premise that inhabitants would drive everywhere. Governments and regional planners designed wide, multi-lane arterial roads for high-speed travel. In the years since, traffic engineers and planners continued to widen those roads and add lanes, ostensibly to address congestion, while local officials approved commercial development alongside them. It led to what former traffic engineer and Strong Towns founder <\/a>Charles Marohn<\/a> calls \u201cstroads.\u201d”
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“Another major factor contributing to climbing pedestrian fatalities is the American love affair with big vehicles.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/23784549\/pedestrian-deaths-traffic-safety-fatalities-governors-association<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“There\u2019s no single explanation for why it\u2019s getting more dangerous to walk on US roads, but there are a few major contributing factors. One is deadly road design. In the decades after World War II, new communities emerged, centered on the premise that inhabitants would drive everywhere. Governments and regional planners designed wide, multi-lane arterial roads for high-speed travel. In the years since, traffic engineers and planners continued to widen those roads and add lanes, ostensibly to address congestion, while local officials approved commercial development alongside them. It led to what former traffic engineer and Strong Towns founder Charles Marohn calls \u201cstroads.\u201d”<\/p>\n

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“Another major factor contributing to climbing pedestrian fatalities is the American love affair with big vehicles.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1092,53],"class_list":["post-11382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-cars","tag-deaths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11383,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11382\/revisions\/11383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}