Description

In this Extra Credit episode, we have a chat about a frankly glum topic: when cars kill people. We discuss a fantastic piece in the New Yorker about a growing movement to end pedestrian and cycling fatalities in NYC and beyond.

Lots to cover in this show, and we talk about:

• ingrained attitudes about transportation (and whose experience counts the most)
• policy choices that inevitably lead to avoidable death
• individuals and families bearing the burden of collective failures
• learning from other countries: whether safe streets are a "cultural" thing or a policy result
• Vision Zero as a response to traffic deaths
• neighborhood politics
• the concept of "windshield bias"
• a few simple design approaches that make streets safer for all people
• ... and more

Let's dive in!

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Hosted by AJ Fawver and Jordan Clark. Edited by Jordan Clark.

Music in this episode: Sounds of the Supermarket, a 1985 Weather Channel broadcast, Isaac Horwedel, and Cullah ("GroOvy" and "Western Firefight 2").