Detroit 2nd Deadliest City for Pedestrians

[iheartthed]

Someone at Time needs to be educated on why streets are deadly for pedestrians. They stupidly note that it's unbelievable that a city of 13 million like Tokyo is safer for pedestrians than Detroit which has less than a million. Get a clue Time. The denser the city, the more people who walk, the more that pedestrians are going to be able to walk safely and in numbers. It's the wide-open streets of places like Detroit and the suburbs that are hostile and deadly to pedestrians. That's why Atlanta is #1 and New York City is #13.

I wonder why Time has someone writing about statistics who clearly doesn't understand statistics.

But you are right, though I do think there is a tipping point where being less dense begins to work in favor of the statistical safety for pedestrians [[because so few people walk anywhere in those places).

Of the top 11 cities by population in the U.S., Detroit is #11 by population but comes in at #5 when ranked by density. And those top 5 cities are listed in inverse order on the pedestrian danger list. None of the other top 11 cities with densities lower than Detroit even make the pedestrian danger...


Top 11 cities by population:
New York
Los Angeles
Chicago
Houston
Phoenix
Philadelphia
San Antonio
San Diego
Dallas
San Jose
Detroit

Top 11 cities by population listed by density:
New York [[rank by population 1)
Chicago [[3)
Philadelphia [[6)
Los Angeles [[2)
Detroit [[11)
San Jose [[10)
San Diego [[8)
Houston [[4)
Dallas [[9)
Phoenix [[5)
San Antonio [[7)