I’m not sure how it got implemented in LA or Hoboken but vision zero in pdx is so poorly thought out. I think we have ~50 traffic fatalities a year. I think ~35 are homeless related and they don’t give a fuck about anything when they cross the road. Traffic calming measures aren’t fixing that. More resources to help the unhoused might. The next ~10 are cause by poor lighting and street racing which can be fixed but aren’t addressed well if at all in our plan. The last 0-5 are ones that would legitimately be solved by some traffic calming. We’ve spent all our money trying to implement traffic calming when that would only fix 10% of the fatalities and nothing on addressing the root causes of 90% of the fatalities. So since implementing vision zero deaths have gone up and traffic has gotten worse.

Edit. I guess I haven’t looked at the data in a few years and it has gotten better since 2023. The first few years of the plan fatalities were going up each year. Unhoused deaths in particular have gotten much better going from accounting for 74% of the fatalities down to 20%.

I’ve seen figures that cars kill between 500 and 700 kids EVERY DAY, worldwide. Can you imagine if the Terrorists got 700 kids just once?

We’d probably do something about that.

As of the 2020 United States census, the Hoboken’s population was 60,419.

With an estimated 3.88 million residents within the city limits as of 2024, Los Angeles is the second-most populous city in the United States.

Yeah, cause they are totally the same amount of traffic and scope. Do you even know how to use statistics to lie because this was pretty bad. First day at the job?