John Greenfield from the good folks at Streetsblog Chicago posted yesterday on the 2016 increased rate of pedestrian fatalities in the Windy City. His report included the following table: Let’s compare the figures above for Chicago with New Mexico, first month-to-month in 2016 from the Traffic Research Unit (TRU) for October: And now year-to-year compiled from… Read More Pedestrian Fatalities: Chicago and New Mexico
To misquote Colonel Kurtz in “Heart of Darkness,” “the disaster….the disaster…” “District 1 City Councilor Ken Sanchez said that the work so far is a ‘disaster,’ and that he didn’t expect so many lanes of Central to be closed even where no work is happening. He thought the work would be done in segments.”- from “City… Read More Councilor Sanchez Proposes Free Bus Rides During A.R.T. Construction
Not “Slick,” but another spokesperson for the President-Elect: Reince Priebus (Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore) In response to the story of a pedestrian killed last Friday night near the corner of Central Avenue and 86th St. N.W., a comment from “Slick” to the KRQE story online contained the following: 11pm on 86th and central. 80% chance it… Read More A Pedestrian Safety Message From a Representative of the President-Elect
Last night a pedestrian was struck and killed near the intersection of Central Avenue and 86th N.W., on the City’s west side. Reports blame the victim for “crossing in a non-designated crosswalk area.” And that will, almost certainly, be that from a news/investigatory standpoint. We’ll just chalk up another pedestrian fatality and carry on with transportation… Read More Pedestrian Killed at Central and 86th N.W.
A friend and I were discussing October’s historically high fourteen pedestrian deaths in New Mexico, and the general rise in such fatalities here and nationwide. “Cheap gas,” was first proffered, along with the concomitant rise in vehicle miles traveled (VMT). Alcohol intoxication on the part of drivers and/or pedestrians was considered. But a look into… Read More Why Pedestrian Fatalities Are Spiking in a Table and Four Graphs
While October saw “only” 34 traffic fatalities in New Mexico, the already high rate of pedestrian deaths here soared dramatically to fourteen in October, almost doubling the previous monthly high in 2016 of eight, back in February. Here are the gruesome findings in a table from UNM’s Traffic Research Unit’s October monthly report. The annual… Read More NM Pedestrian Fatalities Spike in October
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