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Where Pedestrians Are Just 'Traffic Flow Interruptions'

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Tony Hull
27 November 2002 - 7:00am

What do the cities listed as the most dangerous for pedestrians have in common?

"The Surface Transportation Policy Project, an advocacy group, says 4,955 pedestrians were killed in accidents last year...The project's organizers listed the most dangerous metro areas for pedestrians. Five of the six worst were in Florida: Orlando, Tampa-St. Petersburg, West Palm Beach, Memphis, Jacksonville, Miami-Fort Lauderdale, Houston, Phoenix, Dallas-Ft. Worth and Nashville.What do those cities have in common? It is not simply that they are Sun-belt cities; rather, organizers say they enjoyed spurts of growth in the 1960s and '70s, when well-meaning engineers sometimes labeled pedestrians as 'traffic flow interruptions.'"

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Source: ABC News, November 27, 2002
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