Dangerous By Design: Streets Are Only Getting Less Safe for Pedestrians – Reserve Street in Missoula!

The number of people struck and killed while walking has grown a startling 35 percent since 2008.

There are multiple factors behind this, but the report emphasizes one in particular: overly wide arterials that give too much space to cars and too little to humans. High-speed, multi-lane avenues that underpin sprawling urban growth, as opposed to slower, narrower streets that support walkable neighborhoods, are “consistently linked … to higher rates of both traffic-related deaths for people walking and traffic-related deaths overall,” it states.