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Graphic city of Ottawa jaywalking ad part of a 'behaviour change campaign' on city roads, staff say (ottawa.ctvnews.ca)
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"We continually flame road violence as an outcome of personal choices yet we all know very well it's the result of our cities choices," Tom Flood said on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.

"This is an unacceptable ad; victim blaming road violence is not the city I believe in," architect Toon Dreessen said.

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Statistics provided by Gonthier shows 25 per cent of all fatal and major injury collisions on Ottawa's roads involve pedestrians. The memo provided data on collisions between 2017 and 2021 on Ottawa roads:

  • 29 per cent of fatal and major injury collisions involving a pedestrian occurred when a pedestrian was crossing a road midblock (away from an intersection)
  • 23 per cent of fatal and major injury collisions involving a pedestrian occurred when a pedestrian with the right-of-way was struck at an intersection by a left turning driver
  • 11 per cent of fatal and major injury collisions involving a pedestrian occurred when a pedestrian who did not have the right-of-way was struck by a vehicle travelling straight through an intersection
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[–] shitpostpolice@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Fuck cars

[–] intrepid@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

'Jaywalking', like piracy, is a crime invented and enforced among the public by greedy corporations. Roads were originally for pedestrians. This and the fact that cities are designed only for car owners means more profit for car makers. Don't encourage corporate demonization words like jaywalking.

[–] frostbiker@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

If bears kept killing people in our cities, would we do something about the bears, or would we blame people for being mauled?

We need to design our streets to be safer, which involves incorporating traffic calming measures so that drivers will choose to drive at speeds that are safe for everybody.

[–] sederx@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Jaywalking is not a real thing XD