Pedestrian Traffic Fatalities by State: 2022 Preliminary Data

Re:Pedestrian Traffic Fatalities by State: 2022 Preliminary ... by bobthepanda on Monday March 06, 2023 @08:44PM (#35050434)

Planners are not dictators, they’re bureaucrats.

My understanding is that there are actually a fair amount of planners and engineers who like walkability, but that they fairly often get overriden by politicians. Local politician elections have fairly thin margins, and the most motivated voters and the most motivated NIMBYs tends to overlap.

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Re:Pedestrian Traffic Fatalities by State: 2022 Preliminary ... by urbanhole on Monday March 06, 2023 @10:52PM (#35051335)

The majority of planners I’ve met are what you might call “urbanists”. They are generally limited by policy and politics to maintain the status quo, and are therefore frustrated.

(Like, 5 people. This is not a study).

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