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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • The struggle here is that so much of how fast people feel safe to travel is based on the built environment - narrow roads along with other physical traffic calming measures lead to people naturally driving slower. In the US roads were over engineered to be “safe” at higher speeds for people in cars, but speed limits are much lower due to the actual uses of these roads. Poor neighborhoods are often closer to stroads and interstates (interstates have been used to destroy poor communities historically) and are less able to fight high speed traffic bullshit and advocate for meaningful traffic calming measures, they’ve gotten less investment in general over decades.

    It’s a problem my city is about to face - the city installed speed ticket cameras this year and took steps to distribute them equitably to not specifically target poor neighborhoods, but based on the inequitable nature of the built environment the traffic cameras in the poor and minority areas will issue a lot more tickets.