Get Moving BC

Safer streets

GlobeandMail.com reports that pedestrian accidents in Canada have fallen by 31% over the past ten years:

A new report reveals that pedestrian accidents serious enough to send people to hospital declined dramatically over the 10 years after 1994, dropping 31 per cent.

Youth and children – especially young children – seemed to benefit the most from the decline.

There was a 51-per-cent reduction in pedestrian injury hospitalizations among all people under age 20 and the rate dropped 62 per cent in children under five.

I think this is a testament to some of the planning and engineering improvements that have occurred in the past fifteen years in communities across the country. In Langley, for example, we have wider sidewalks, trails and greenways than ever before. I imagine this is happening all over the country, as more thought and consideration is being given to walkability.

posted by Jordan Bateman @ 8:43 AM