"When drivers fail to yield for pedestrians, it’s not because they can’t see them, it’s because they don’t care.”
The reason most pedestrian safety campaigns fail, is because they refuse to blame the drivers and focus on victim-blaming pedestrians. Motorists are the ones putting them in danger, and the ones who require education and consequences to stop it.
https://momentummag.com/vision-zero-campaign-bricks-vancouver/
#yegbike #urbanism
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2024-04-08 21:17:00
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