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September 13, 2012

Have there ever been “A Hundred Deathless Days”?

David Banks makes a good point:

Fascinating article (and blog post) indeed. …   Considering Vancouver’s annual pedestrian mortality rate, I wonder if we have ever achieved 100 days…

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Globe article here.

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  1. Sigh, reply zapped by an accidental keystroke. That never happened with typewriters.

    In short. the 1939 Sun had a point, only 18% of ped. fatalites are the ped.s fault. Motorists, over 1/2 of fatalities are when you’re turning. Slow down, when turning tire squealing jackrabbit turns save almost 0 time. The 7 month streak has been broken several times over, but let’s strive to keep the 2010 total under 10.

    http://www.openfile.ca/vancouver/blog/vancouver/2012/most-pedestrian-vehicle-collisions-vancouver-involved-drivers-not-yielding-study

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  2. Eight so far this year. For those of a morbid disposition, the media term to search for is “traffic-related fatality”: https://www.google.ca/search?q=vancouver+%22traffic-related+fatality%22

    So an average of one every 30 days. In the “greenest city” on earth.

    This would make a great single-serving site: can somebody go register ahundreddeathlessdays.ca ?

    So what should we do what is the policy response? Easy:

    1. Ban: pedestrian only streets.
    2. Separate: complete streets, multiway boulevards.
    3. Tame: narrow, bulge, wiggle, twist. Roundabouts.

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