The
Orlando Sentinel ran the following guest column last Sunday. The "Dr. Phillips Club," referred to in the op-ed, is the Dr. Phillips Rotary Club.
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Transportation for America posted an
interactive map showing the location of pedestrian deaths nationwide. The Orlando map shows FDOT arterials--East Colonial, Semoran, and OBT--as lines of death.
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| Source: Transportation for America |
Transportation for America posted the following message:
Our federal tax dollars actually go to build these streets that are designed to be perilous to children, older adults and everyone else. And yet, right now, some in Congress are considering the total elimination of funding for projects to make it safer to walk and bicycle.
.... But 67 percent of these fatalities over the last 10 years occurred on federal-aid roads — roads eligible to receive federal funding or with federal guidelines or oversight for their design.
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The irony is that fixing these conditions is relatively cheap: Existing funds for that purpose — now targeted for elimination — amount to less than 1.5 percent of the current federal transportation outlay. ....
