This week the nonprofit Streets Are For Everybody (SAFE) launched Dying on the Streets of Los Angeles, a brief report on visitors violence within the metropolis of Los Angeles. The tendencies should not good. Discover the total report at SAFE’s webpage. Under are some takeaways:
2022 Site visitors Fatalities Greater Than Ever
There have been 309 visitors fatalities in 2022, breaking the 300 mark for the primary time in over 20 years, which is how far our information attain. This was a rise of 5 p.c from the earlier 12 months and a staggering 28 p.c improve over 2020.
Pedestrians, cyclists, folks in vehicles, and so on. are all trending upward prior to now couple years. Per SAFE:
…weak highway customers – pedestrians and cyclists – are impacted probably the most by visitors violence in Los Angeles. Pedestrian fatalities had been up by 19 p.c (157 lives misplaced, additionally the very best in 20 years). Bicycle fatalities additionally elevated by 24 p.c (21 lives misplaced).
Unhoused Angelenos Killed at Greater Charges
Utilizing 2018 to 2022 information, SAFE discovered:
On common, housed pedestrians and cyclists in Los Angeles are killed at a price of two.9 per capita (100,000 people), a price that’s considerably increased than the nationwide common of two.2 per capita. Nonetheless, on common, 116.6 unhoused people per capita are killed by visitors violence yearly. That’s 40.2 instances greater than housed pedestrians and cyclists in Los Angeles and 53 instances the nationwide common.
Suggestions for Mayor Bass
SAFE recommends:
- Lower the Paperwork – together with “fast-tracking hiring the personnel wanted by LADOT [L.A. City Transportation Department] for highway security initiatives” and auditing town’s Imaginative and prescient Zero program.
- Reestablish Imaginative and prescient Zero with Accountability, Transparency, and Objective – together with re-establishing town’s multi-departmental Imaginative and prescient Zero Government Steering Committee, working with neighborhood teams, and common quarterly reporting on visitors deaths and severe accidents.
- Prioritize Lives over the Proper to Pace – together with equitably implementing automated velocity enforcement on probably the most harmful roads – together with faculty zones and avenue racing corridors.
- Get Actual Concerning the Magnitude of the Drawback – together with absolutely staffing LADOT Imaginative and prescient Zero workers, growing Imaginative and prescient Zero funding, and implementing town’s Mobility Plan 2035.
Learn the total report at Streets Are For Everybody.
To get entangled, attend SAFE’s deliberate die-in protest on Saturday, January 21 on the steps of L.A. Metropolis Corridor, 200 N. Spring Road in downtown Los Angeles. Taking part organizations embody Bike LA, So Cal Households for Secure Streets, Streets for All, Transfer LA, Road Racing Kills, Religion for SAFEr Streets, Stroll n Rollers, Conor Lynch Basis, SBBC+, and others. Discover particulars at SAFE occasion web page.
