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Thursday, August 22, 2019

Blindsided: Portland spends millions to stop cars from killing people. It’s not working.

(Click on the image for the essay)
"Anjeanette Brown knows you don’t see her.
That’s because her neighborhood doesn’t have enough streetlights.
The uneven street outside her house in the Centennial neighborhood is dirt and gravel. The crosswalks are spaced a quarter mile apart. On nearby Division Street, the main drag, streetlights line only one side of the road, and they aren’t bright enough to illuminate darker-skinned pedestrians at night anyway."