A decade ago, the city committed to eliminating traffic deaths by 2026. It's not even close.
chicago.suntimes.com
Despite an ambitious plan by the city to eliminate all traffic deaths by next year, nearly as many people are dying on Chicago roads as when the goal was announced in 2017. The number of yearly injuries and crashes has actually increased since then.
  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
    44·
    7 months ago

    Chicago has 2.6 million people. This number of accidental deaths is 0.0042% of the population.

    They scored a grade of 99.9958 on this test. Is reducing the accident rate even a realistic target? There are always going to be some incidents that you can’t prevent, some circumstances that you can’t predict.

    I’m not saying the safety effort shouldn’t be made, but 0 is not a realistic target in the real world. You can always try to address edge cases, but you can’t actually eliminate them.

    • Peajee@lemmy.world
      6·
      7 months ago

      Well, proper infrastructure definitely makes car “accidents” much less likely. Also deaths should not be the only statistic here, much more people get disabled by cars than killed

    • BothsidesistFraud@lemmy.world
      1·
      7 months ago

      You are right that you pretty much can’t eliminate edge cases, like addicts running in traffic at night.

      However, Chicago is notoriously lawless for driving and a lot of these deaths were due to running red lights, lane violations, turning through peds at an intersection, etc. All of those can be addressed pretty effectively.