These neighborhoods share a history of under-investment in basic traffic safety measures such as streetlights, crosswalks and sidewalks, and an over-investment in automobile infrastructure meant to speed through people who do not live there. Pedestrian and cyclist injuries tend to be concentrated in poorer neighborhoods that have a larger share of Black and Hispanic residents. The design of our cities is partly to blame for these troubling disparities. Source: “ Disparities in Activity and Traffic Fatalities by Race/Ethnicity” in The American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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