{"id":611,"date":"2020-03-18T10:30:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T10:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.renthop.com\/content-manager\/?post_type=studies&p=12485"},"modified":"2020-03-18T10:31:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T14:31:02","slug":"traffic-deaths-jumped-300-in-west-colfax-in-2019-and-marston-saw-3-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.renthop.com\/research\/traffic-deaths-jumped-300-in-west-colfax-in-2019-and-marston-saw-3-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Traffic Deaths Jumped 300% in West Colfax in 2019, and Marston Saw 3 Deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you haven’t heard, the U.S. is the only country that refused to sign the Stockholm Declaration<\/a>, an agreement pledging to eliminate traffic deaths by 2050. While we respect the administration’s decision and know that road safety shares its utmost priority on the agenda, we cannot deny the cost we have to pay in exchange for mobility. Traffic fatalities have generally gone down in major global cities and even decreased to zero in places like Helsinki and Oslo, but that, sadly, is not the case in the U.S.<\/p>\n

In 2019, the country as a whole saw more pedestrian and cyclist deaths even though the total number of traffic fatalities was in decline, and such a trend did not spare Denver. For the second time since the Vision Zero program was launched, Denver saw more than 60 traffic deaths even though the number of traffic accidents went down by 2.6%. Indeed, progress is not always linear, and we should not be discouraged. However, this reiterates the importance of adding bike lanes, expanding sidewalks lowering speed limits, and redesigning certain street intersections.<\/p>\n

To help generate awareness on traffic fatalities, we at RentHop took a look at the traffic accidents data in the past year, and here’s what we’ve found:<\/strong><\/p>\n