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Americans are driving less during the pandemic, but the rate of traffic deaths has gone up. On this episode of "What Is Even Happening?" @Curbed's @awalkerinLA spoke with researcher and professor @ctbrown1911 about some possible explanations — and some possible life-saving fixes.
"When you have less people out driving, you have a tendency for more people to speed," says @ctbrown1911. "You couple that with the fact that there are more people out biking, walking, and just enjoying the environment, it is a recipe for disaster."
. @ctbrown1911: "We have a really good grasp on who is being killed on our roadways. What is not done is the parallel, which is, who is actually hitting these pedestrians? We need a sort of national profile of those behind the wheel who have struck and killed pedestrians."
. @ctbrown1911: "Too often our roadways are designed around commuter traffic. So what we're doing there is designing our streets in a way in which they benefit those coming into our cities and burden those living in our cities. What we need are better roadway design standards."
For more on why the rate of traffic deaths has risen during the pandemic, read @awalkerinLA's report https://nym.ag/3440Sfp
