The authors offer some solutions that parallel a national trend toward reconfiguring streets to make them safer and more appealing to pedestrians without adversely impacting traffic flow.
By using traffic calming techniques like reconfiguring road alignments and installing barriers like roundabouts to slow drivers, streets become more accessible. Expanding the Safe Routes to School program, which installs or improves crosswalks, signals and other features, would make walking and biking safer for children.
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Many of the deaths occurred on streets that have few provisions for pedestrians, cyclists or those in wheelchairs. According to the report, of the 9,168 pedestrian fatalities in 2007-2008 where the location of the accident is known, more than 40 percent were killed in a spot where there was no crosswalk.
Less than 1.5 percent of total transportation funds are spent on such measures, even though pedestrians comprise 11.8 percent of all traffic deaths and nearly the same percentage of all trips taken.
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D: Gee, do you suppose those 2 factoids are related?
In K-W town, I've seen a coupla improvements in the past year.
A coupla bike lane 'pinch points' have been fixed at intersections.
Caroline St. behind uptown Waterloo's mall, for example, at William St.
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Slate had an interesting piece in defense of jaywalking.
You might want to check out my blog, which has some common ground with yours, and TriTAG, which is a new bike/walk/transit action group in Waterloo Region.
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