Why Are So Many More Pedestrians Dying in the U.S.?

为什么美国有这么多行人死亡?

The Daily

2024-01-04

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A puzzling new pattern has taken hold on American roads: pedestrian traffic deaths, which had been on the decline for years, have skyrocketed. Emily Badger, who covers cities and urban policy for The Upshot at The New York Times, discusses her investigation into what lies behind the phenomenon.
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  • From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavernisi, and this is the daily.

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  • Puzzling new pattern has taken hold on american roads.

  • Pedestrian traffic deaths, which had been on the decline for years, have skyrocketed.

  • Today, my colleague Emily Badger on her investigation into why its Thursday, January 4.

  • So, Emily, you spent months investigating a very surprising trend, and that is pedestrian deaths, after decades of declines, are now rising.

  • So we wanted to talk to you about that investigation and really look closely at this question of why.

  • But before we get there, tell me how you came to this story.

  • Where'd you begin?

  • So I write about urban policy for the Times, which means I write about transportation, among other things, and sort of how people use it and how we get around and how important it is to our lives.

  • And this one very apparent pattern keeps coming up over and over again, which is that there has been this traffic safety crisis in America, affecting in particular, pedestrians.

  • You know, for years and years, throughout the eighties, the nineties, the early two thousands roads in America were becoming safer and safer for pedestrians.

  • And then something changes around 2009.

  • All of a sudden, roads start to become more dangerous year over year, to the point where more than 3000 additional pedestrians died in 2021 compared to 2009.