{"id":573,"date":"2016-01-30T16:35:18","date_gmt":"2016-01-30T21:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/?p=573"},"modified":"2016-01-30T16:44:47","modified_gmt":"2016-01-30T21:44:47","slug":"third-pedestrian-incident-in-rozzie-in-two-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/2016\/01\/30\/third-pedestrian-incident-in-rozzie-in-two-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Third Pedestrian Incident in Rozzie in Two Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Firth and Washington Street<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We were yet again saddened to hear of another car hitting a pedestrian in Roslindale; this is the third such incident in about two weeks (Blue Ledge Drive<\/a>\u00a0\/ Hyde Park Ave<\/a>). The latest occurred at the intersection of Firth Road and Washington Street<\/a>. Thus far the only reporting we’ve found was this brief description on Twitter<\/a>:<\/p>\n

pedestrian hit by a car in intersection of Firth & Washington in Roslindale- she was on the ground but alert- tons of traffic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While the City has a formal action response plan for any pedestrian incident involving a fatality, non-fatal incidents don’t necessarily result in anything more than a statistic. Yet these non-fatal incidents are often equally indicative of poor road design creating dangerous conditions.<\/p>\n

The important thing to remember is most of these incidents are preventable and not merely the result of poor judgment by a driver (or pedestrian). Cities that take\u00a0Vision Zero<\/a> seriously have seen dramatic results–in Sweden, pedestrian fatalities have dropped 50% in the past five years; we’ve also seen a\u00a043% reduction in traffic fatalities in Minnesota, a 48% reduction in Utah, and a 40% decrease in Washington State (source: Vision Zero: Learning from Sweden’s Successes<\/a>). Thus far, the City of Boston’s Vision Zero aspirational\u00a0plan hits all the right notes<\/a>, but we’ve yet to see real changes “on the ground.” These recent incidents in Roslindale are powerful reminders that immediate action is urgently needed.<\/p>\n

We wish the victim of the latest incident a quick recovery. If anyone has more details, please leave them in the comments here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We were yet again saddened to hear of another car hitting a pedestrian in Roslindale; this is the third such incident in about two weeks (Blue Ledge Drive\u00a0\/ Hyde Park Ave). The latest occurred at the intersection of Firth Road and Washington Street. Thus far the only reporting we’ve found was this brief description on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[197,195,49,196,12],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-safety","tag-firth-road","tag-pedestrian-injuries","tag-vision-zero","tag-vision-zero-boston","tag-washington-street"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6X5no-9f","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":579,"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions\/579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}