Two hundred and eight pedestrians were killed in the Charlotte metro area in the decade from 2000-2009, according to the report from Transportation for America. Seventeen percent of all traffic deaths in Mecklenburg County were pedestrians, the report said.
The Raleigh metro area ranked 13th. The top four most dangerous cities for pedestrians were all in Florida. Raleigh and Charlotte were ranked more dangerous than Los Angeles (#27), Denver (#29), Washington, D.C. (#34) and New York (#50), among others.
Pedestrian safety grabbed headlines in Charlotte last month after two people were hit in two days, and one killed, at the intersection of Stonewall and College streets uptown. Transportation for America argues, rightly, that pedestrian safety is way down on the priority list for most government transportation planners. In 15 of the country's largest metro areas, pedestrian deaths have been going up even as the number of motorists' deaths has been falling thanks to campaigns on seat belts, child seats, drunk driving, texting while driving and other initiatives.
Transportation for America is a policy organization that backs public transit, biking, walking and environmentalism. You can read its full report, "Dangerous by Design," on a PDF here.
-- Taylor Batten
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