1/31/2024 0 Comments Dc traffic![]() So when you have a community, particularly communities of color, low-income communities where there has been historical disinvestment in safe streets, it’s no wonder that the outcomes of traffic fatalities and serious injuries are higher in those communities. If our only mechanism to make a street safer is to go out and have police out there or speed cameras, we’ve already failed at the design of the street. Greg Billing Executive Director of the Washington Area Bicyclist Association, agreed: “It’s going to take us a little bit of time to redesign an entire city that has been designed for cars.” Billing also described enforcement as “a strategy of last resort”: “The thing that we think makes the biggest difference is design,” Jacob Bason, President of All Walks DC, said, in a recent discussion on the Kojo Nnamdi Show. Enforcement is often an easier tool for cities to deploy, especially when safer street design is held up by logistical and bureaucratic barriers. Among these three, engineering is the most fundamental, but also the most difficult. Strategies to prevent traffic fatalities traditionally fall into three categories: engineering, enforcement, and education. have been criticized for being ineffective-traffic deaths rose locally and nationally in recent years-and for exacerbating existing racial inequities. ![]() The Vision Zero movement recognizes traffic collisions as a public health epidemic with identifiable causes and solutions, rather than accidental and immutable forces of nature beyond reach of safety interventions using this framework, the District has taken concrete steps to address root causes and reduce traffic fatalities. joined the international Vision Zero movement by committing to end traffic deaths and serious injuries by 2024.
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