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Crossing the Street Shouldn't Be Deadly (but it is)

Not Just Bikes · 1.9M views · 2022-09-12 · 31:25

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Not Just Bikes explains why crossing streets is dangerous in the US and Canada, where roads are designed to move cars fast, and contrasts it with Dutch designs for pedestrians.

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Linked in road-safety threads as a good explanation of how street and signal design prevent pedestrian deaths.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2022–2023

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Transit, cities & urban planning
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urban planningpedestrianstraffic lightsnetherlandsroad safety

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pronlover723 · 2022-09 · Recommendation

You're looking for fault and there's something to that but there's also just re-designing the streets to prevent the accidents in the first place [VIDEO] also [LINK]

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dagurp · 2022-09 · Recommendation

I'm not talking about markings, I'm talking about designing crossings so that pedestrians and cyclist don't have to watch out for turning cars and improving traffic lights so that pedestrians and cyclist don't feel the need to run red lights. Here are two really good videos about this that talk about this: - [VIDEO] - [LINK]

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Mawr · 2023-10 · Reference

The best example is that even your curious question comes with a car-minded implicit assumption that it's the pedestrian who is crossing, not the car. In a pedestrian-centric design, cars are the ones who cross. See [VIDEO] .

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