Walking in Memphis: These streets are Dangerous by Design
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- čas přidán 28. 05. 2024
- Memphis is the deadliest city for pedestrians. According to our new report, Dangerous by Design 2024 (smartgrowthamerica.org/danger..., Memphis holds the #1 spot, with a rate of 5.14 per 100,000 pedestrians who are hit and killed by cars while walking is-triple their rate from 2009. But why is walking in Memphis so dangerous?
Our new video shares on-the-ground perspectives and birds-eye views to demonstrate why Memphis’s streets are so dangerous. In the video, we interview local residents who deal with these perilous streets on a daily basis. Behind the alarming fatality numbers are countless human faces and stories of people trying to move around their communities in a safe and dignified way. - Krátké a kreslené filmy
Those streets look insane. They look like 4-7 lane racetracks and then they put an unsignalized crosswalk through the middle. One look at that and anyone would tell you that's unsafe. I don't know why safety isn't a bigger concern. I couldn't design a better death trap if I tried. How do they get away with this. I'd rather have no arterial roads than deadly arterial roads.
Memphis is an impossible place when it comes to pedestrians. Bigger than New York City (all 5 boroughs) but just 650,000 people, everything is very spread out and people have to get to places fast. 40-50 miles per hour is a "normal" speed here. On the interstate the legal limit is 55 and yet you have to drive 65-70 mph just to survive. Others drive 80 or more.
The Hights Line is a great project but that needs to happen at least 100+ more times in Memphis before things start changing.
Very misleading. The biggest contributor is JAYWALKING. I live in Memphis. Take a ride down any of the main busy streets and you will see people standing in the middle of the street trying to cross it when there is an intersection a short distance away! That is where the fatalities are happening. Pedestrians who are getting killed are the ones who are not crossing at the designated places!
Even the people in your video are walking in the street!!!!
Disagree with your perspective. Pedestrians always have the right of way, so cars are the offenders at fault. Jaywalking is an artificial idea from the artificial car-centric perspective.
Agree wholeheartedly, they really shouldn't complain if not using the designated path to cross streets.
@@sspoonless Yeah that doesn't even merit a reply but... Are you kidding? Seriously are you?
The crosswalks are extremely far apart. Take Union Street for example. Have you ever tried to walk across Union Street yourself? Let's see you try it and then report back.
@@bonnieleib1617 BS. I LIVE on Union Avenue. It's mostly businesses with some high rises. There is absolutely no legitimate reason for not crossing at one of the intersections other than laziness and stupidity. They morons I've seen standing in the street are NEAR a crosswalk. That's the POINT. They're not even trying!