Las Vegas is one of the nation’s most dangerous cities for pedestrians, study says

Las Vegas was named 1 of the nation’s astir unsafe cities for pedestrians, according to a caller study.

Kuru, a footwear company, analyzed pedestrian fatality information and locomotion scores — which measures however easy residents tin scope mundane errands and amenities connected foot, with little scores indicating greater dependence connected cars — for 35 large metropolitan cities crossed the state to find which cities are the safest and astir unsafe for pedestrians.

With a full information people of 25 retired of 100 — compiled from 3.46 pedestrian deaths per 100,000 radical and a locomotion people of 42 retired of 100 — Las Vegas ranked 30th.

Erin Breen, manager of UNLV’s Road Equity Alliance Project, a pedestrian and postulation information initiative, attributed Las Vegas’ mediocre placement successful the survey to the city’s improvement post-World War II.

She said that, arsenic cars became cheaper and each household started to ain 1 aft the war, streets became wider with obscurity for radical to cross.

“Our streets are built similar the car is king,” Breen said. “Our streets were built for cars, not people.”

Las Vegas’ people of 3.46 pedestrian deaths per 100,000 is the fifth-highest successful the study, trailing lone Albuquerque, New Mexico (4.41), Mesa, Arizona (3.6), Phoenix, Arizona (3.6) and Tucson, Arizona (3.6), respectively.

Its locomotion people is the 13th-lowest successful the study. According to a quality merchandise by Kuru, the city’s locomotion people reflects “limited pedestrian infrastructure amid precocious tourism postulation and engaged roadways.”

Last year, Kuru conducted the aforesaid study, finding that Las Vegas had 3.41 pedestrian deaths per 100,000 radical — lone down Albuquerque (4.68) and Jacksonville, Florida (3.54), respectively — and besides a 42 locomotion people for a full information people of 29.

Both years, Boston, Massachusetts, New York, New York and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, were among the apical 5 safest cities for pedestrians. This year, Louisville, Kentucky and Milwaukee, Wisconsin replaced Chicago, Illinois and Nashville, Tennessee, successful the apical 5.

In the latest study, Milwaukee had the lowest pedestrian deaths per 100,000 people, with 0.92. Washington, D.C.’s 98 locomotion people was the study’s highest, portion Jacksonville and Charlotte, North Carolina’s 26 locomotion people was its lowest.

Boston was named the nation’s safest metropolis for pedestrians with a full information people of 88, and Albuquerque was dubbed the country’s astir unsafe metropolis for pedestrians with a full information people of 12.

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