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Angie Schmitt
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Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America
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2020
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2 editions
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“Smart Growth America recently named North Carolina the seventh most dangerous state in the country for pedestrians and cyclists, and the loss of funding, said Lansdell, “hurts dramatically.”22”
― Right of Way: Race, Class and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America
― Right of Way: Race, Class and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America
“Twenty-two US states have amended their constitutions to forbid any gasoline tax revenues at all from being spent on sidewalks.37 Many of these laws were passed in the 1960s with the financial backing of highway construction lobbyists.38 At the federal level, bicyclists and pedestrians now represent about one in five traffic deaths, but they receive less than 1.5 percent of all federal infrastructure funding.39 Increasing political polarization may also play a role. Just as the pedestrian death crisis was beginning to present itself in 2012, and in an era of loud and renewed interest in active transportation, the Republican-led US Congress substantially reduced federal funding support for walking and biking programs. In addition, following the election of Donald Trump in 2016, the newly regulation-averse US Department of Transportation slow-walked reforms that could have, for the first time, made automakers more accountable for their design impacts on pedestrian safety.”
― Right of Way: Race, Class and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America
― Right of Way: Race, Class and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America
“Early in the crisis, many right-wing figures, including President Trump, used traffic deaths—some 37,000 annually—to make the case that some amount of loss of life is an acceptable price to pay for a strong economy. (In the case of the pandemic, we’re talking truly staggering figures.) It was a bad analogy in a lot of ways, but it helped emphasize the strange tolerance we have in our culture for traffic deaths and how they can desensitize us to other forms of cruelty and injustice.”
― Right of Way: Race, Class and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America
― Right of Way: Race, Class and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America
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