THE VIDEO SHELF · pedestrian safety and street design
Crossing the Street Shouldn't Be Deadly (but it is)
Not Just Bikes explains why crossing streets is dangerous in the US and Canada, where roads are designed to move cars fast, and contrasts it with Dutch designs for pedestrians.
Why HN readers recommended it
Linked in road-safety threads as a good explanation of how street and signal design prevent pedestrian deaths.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Not Just Bikes
- Topic
- pedestrian safety and street design
- Format
- explainer
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 7
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2022–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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You're looking for fault and there's something to that but there's also just re-designing the streets to prevent the accidents in the first place [VIDEO] also [LINK]
pronlover723 on Hacker News · 2022-09
In The most dangerous road for cyclists in AmericaI'm not talking about markings, I'm talking about designing crossings so that pedestrians and cyclist don't have to watch out for turning cars and improving traffic lights so that pedestrians and cyclist don't feel the need to run red lights. Here are two really good …
dagurp on Hacker News · 2022-09
In The most dangerous road for cyclists in America
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