Globe and Mail editorial: “Hey driver, check your privilege. Pedestrians have rights, too”

Says; The killing of pedestrians is an overlooked tragedy in a car-centred culture that prefers to regard road deaths as both accidental and inevitable.

They are neither – at least not if you’re determined to make our cities safe places where people can go for a walk without fear of sudden death or disability.

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It is time to undo this destructive choice – by dropping speed limits, narrowing roads, extending curbs at crossings, and providing safety islands on broad, busy streets. Politicians must find the courage to resist the crude war-on-the-car arguments that will inevitably result. Pedestrians already have priority under the law. It is time they had it in reality.

 

 

 

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