Accident-Zone: Poorer Neighborhoods Have Less-Safe Road Designs (Give me a BARF...)

Scientific American ^ | 5/3/12 | Sarah Fecht

[Alberta's Child]

Thanks. It’s an interesting case up there in Montreal. It’s very similar to New York City in a lot of ways ... lots of rich and poor, and most of the middle class lives in the suburbs.

[Alberta's Child]

In that case, the engineering would involve narrowing the street to make room for a wider sidewalk. The key is to have a street that works in the context of the area where it is located. Having an eight-lane wide boulevard in an area with lots of pedestrians doesn’t make any sense, for example.