Traffic deaths plague poor and rural areas of the US. How do we fix that? | The Excerpt



Safe Streets and Roads for All is a new federal program that’s supposed to help communities fix dangerous streets and reduce traffic deaths. But USA TODAY Investigative Data Reporter Austin Fast found most of the money has been awarded in more affluent counties with lower fatality rates. Plus, hundreds of millions of dollars have gone unawarded, simply because the program has not gotten enough applications. Despite that, the U.S. Department of Transportation hadn’t directly encouraged hard-hit communities to apply until the past couple months, when USA TODAY began asking questions.
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11 comments

  1. Pete Buttigieg is clearly the problem.

  2. Ghost bike ride or ghost bike memorial some friends back at Eugene Oregon will say that was probably a child pedophiles and mentally wrong doer that are inclined to underages and sick perverted minds that think assault sexually others is right (ghost bike ride or ghost bike memorial. Do you. You're Free to comment there's no square finger's. 😍🥰

  3. Your title is clickbait because poor areas are the most congested and so you're going to have higher fatalities from vehicles. You can add to that that the poor areas have the highest drug and alcohol consumption going on so you have higher DUIs and more fatalities from vehicles. There is an aggression issue going on in those neighborhoods as well higher incidence of criminals and of people who don't care about being violent. This is not worthy of you creating an article about it as everybody has known about this forever.

  4. Here’s a hint don’t walk in front of a train and don’t listen to Pete Buttigieg

  5. OK you had me at she was walking home from a bar. Duh.

  6. How much is your funding going towards the New World order?

  7. You should probably spend your time on more important things. It’s really not an issue.

  8. Take away vehicles. 🙄

  9. The sad thing is I can easily see how incompetence or malice can be at play here since if these communities were urban democratic voters the government would help them out

  10. I dunno, how does one teach empathy to people who don't have it?