Companies pledge millions in fed effort to stem road deaths

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Nearly 50 businesses and nonprofits including Uber and 3M are pledging millions of dollars in initiatives to stem a crisis in U.S. road fatalities. It’s part of a new national “Call to Action” campaign rolled out by Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.

during the first nine months of 2022, but pedestrian and cyclist deaths continued to rise. More than 40,000 people are killed in road crashes a year.

“We can’t solve any of this on our own,” he added. “We also know there isn’t one piece that will get this all down. But if we add all this together it can be enormous.” “We were thinking about how we could make an impact more broadly — how we can get people to start making better choices,” said Kristin Smith, head of Uber’s road safety policy. “We know it’s going to take a broad coalition of people to be tackling the crisis on U.S. roadways right now.

It’s already pledged to improve 100 school crossing zones and added to that a commitment of $250,000 this year for a new transportation equity initiative that will fund half a dozen major projects in underserved areas. The company cited as an example its partnership with nonprofit groups to help build out Providence, Rhode Island’s, Hope Street Urban Trail last year, featuring new bike and pedestrian lanes connecting the neighborhood to schools and the commercial district.

 

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Just make trains

I think this administration getting a little too liberal with terms like crisis and epidemic.

Just make the price of gas so exorbitant that there won’t be any crazy drivers on the road 😂

We've had trucker issues, train issues, airplane issues. He's such a good transporter! Can't wait to see what this does 'for' 'us'.

Here comes more oppression from the Biden syndicate!

Get rid of all the monster trucks and SUVs on the roads. Ridiculous given climate change and death traps for the rest of us. Electric trucks/battery weight is only going to make this worse!

Could THIS be why you just said “fuck airplanes” and didn’t do your due diligence previous to that lil kerfafle with SouthwestAirlines? Ughh…you ALL just reek of such OBVIOUS inauthenticity. I genuinely can’t understand how people stan ANY politician.

Maybe? Crime = Punishment Today lawsuits have pretty much make traffic enforcement a joke in every state. Remember slowing down when you saw a cop? These days, probably not.

The answer to road deaths is regulation. Not buy offs from the perpetrators. An easy solution would be to mandate speed humps on all new or resurfaced residential street but Pete ain’t doin that.

What we need is higher standards for driver licenses, and bigger punishments for those who break the law. Every day on the highway, we all see about 25% of the population driving so poorly that they couldn’t pass a real drivers test. Start by raising standards again

Remove speed limits. Install cameras to heavily fine slow drivers in the fast lanes. Seems easy

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