{"id":155300899,"date":"2009-12-03T11:08:19","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T11:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=155300899"},"modified":"2009-12-03T11:08:19","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T11:08:19","slug":"time-magazine-features-dangerous-by-design-report-on-pedestrian-safety-culminating-three-weeks-of-coverage-nationwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=155300899","title":{"rendered":"TIME Magazine features Dangerous by Design report on pedestrian safety, culminating three weeks of coverage nationwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Sean Barry<br \/>\n&#8211;newspapersThis week\u2019s issue of TIME Magazine topped off three weeks of nationwide coverage of Transportation for America\u2019s Dangerous by Design report ranking communities according to the risk for pedestrians.<br \/>\nThe excellent TIME piece opens with the tragic story of Ashley Nicole Valdes, \u201ca smart, pretty 11-year-old girl\u201d who was killed while crossing the street in Miami earlier this year and became \u201ca heart-wrenching symbol of South Florida\u2019s notoriously reckless car culture.\u201d<br \/>\nFlorida was identified in the report as being the most dangerous for pedestrians. \u201cYou see all these people getting run over,\u201d said Ashley\u2019s mother, Adonay Risete, \u201cand you ask yourself: What\u2019s happened to us as people here? We need to get tougher and change attitudes.\u201d<br \/>\nThe phenomenal response to Dangerous by Design is a hopeful sign that change may be under way.<br \/>\nMore than 150 newspapers, 300 TV broadcasts and 50 radio programs have covered the report, co-authored by the Surface Transportation Policy Partnership, since its release three weeks ago. The report\u2019s findings speak to the need for action: America has a pedestrian fatality rate equivalent to a jumbo jet full of passengers crashing every 31 days. This decade alone, 43,000 Americans \u2013 including 3,906 children under 16 \u2013 have been killed while walking or crossing the street.<br \/>\nWe could make great strides on pedestrian safety by adopting \u201ccomplete streets\u201d policies, ensuring that roads are designed to be safe and accessible for everyone who uses them, whether motorist, bicyclist, transit rider or pedestrian. You can help by asking your member of Congress to support the pending national Complete Streets Act.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/t4america.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/01\/time-magazine-features-dangerous-by-design-report-on-pedestrian-safety-culminating-three-weeks-of-nationwide-coverage\/\">https:\/\/t4america.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/01\/time-magazine-features-dangerous-by-design-report-on-pedestrian-safety-culminating-three-weeks-of-nationwide-coverage\/<\/a>oldId.20091203110819692<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sean Barry &#8211;newspapersThis week\u2019s issue of TIME Magazine topped off three weeks of nationwide coverage of Transportation for America\u2019s Dangerous by Design report ranking communities according to the risk for pedestrians. The excellent TIME piece opens with the tragic story of Ashley Nicole Valdes, \u201ca smart, pretty 11-year-old girl\u201d who was killed while crossing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=155300899\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;TIME Magazine features Dangerous by Design report on pedestrian safety, culminating three weeks of coverage nationwide&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155300899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155300899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155300899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155300899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155300899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155300899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155300899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}