On streets all around Asbury Park we can see improvements for pedestrians, bicyclists and markings to slow cars.  Neighborhoods are becoming safer and the work will continue throughout the city so we can avoid being included among the statistics of US traffic fatalities, particularly the increase of hit-and-run.

HIT-AND-RUN DEATHS ARE SKYROCKETING, AND PEDESTRIANS AND CYCLISTS BEAR THE BRUNT

By Angie Schmitt May 1, 2018

“Overall, the AAA report is more evidence that America’s traffic safety paradigm is failing. Decades of institutional safety practices that treat superficial symptoms while overlooking the central role of car-centric street design and planning have left the U.S. with a traffic fatality rate far higher than peer nations. Life is cheap on American streets.”

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https://usa.streetsblog.org/2018/05/01/hit-and-run-deaths-are-skyrocketing-and-pedestrians-and-cyclists-bear-the-brunt/