Great paper from Dr Dave Ederer of the CDC, Dr Kari Watkins, and others, proposing pivoting from the 5 "E's" to a hierarchy-of-controls framework for surface transportation safety.
This is absolutely how we should be thinking about and prioritizing "safety," which goes far beyond just countermeasures and outreach.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590198223001525
@BarbChamberlain @bikepedantic I don't get the socioeconomic factors, isn't that the part where we usually write #BanCars? Also a foam hat on the very top of this pyramid would be so cute.
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Where I live, less wealthy, less white neighborhoods have: fewer sidewalks in adequate repair, useable crosswalks, less transit service, fewer benches and bus shelters, and industrial traffic making biking extra dangerous
Or alternately, below average car ownership, but the streets are designed for rich people to drive through as fast as possible
A massively disproportionate number of traffic deaths happen in these neighborhoods
@enobacon @BarbChamberlain @bikepedantic also, as mentioned in the article, less wealthy people being pushed to car dominant suburbs is another major factor
More broadly speaking, I'd say banning cars is a socioeconomic problem that will require a lot of changes in our society along those lines
@BarbChamberlain @bikepedantic I think it's the LAB who has the pyramid with PPE at the bottom.
@HayiWena @bikepedantic I checked with Ken at the League. He pointed me to Queen Anne Greenways and I found an old tweet from Cathy Tuttle in Seattle.
@bikepedantic Thanks for sharing; looks like a useful structure. We've had a different version of this in our strategic highway safety plan since the 2019 update. I adapted the OSHA hierarchy of controls inverted pyramid (possibly prompted by someone else, can't recall now). Critical for that use to put PPE at the bottom as least effective. https://targetzero.com/ #RoadSafety #VisionZero #HierarchyOfControls