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Check out the guy, center of the road, toward the back: Uh, oh.
For all the District’s talk of dangerous pedestrian corridors—-and it’s commendable, absolutely—- we’re doing pretty well here. I suspect that this has much less to do with road maps than overall drivers’ attitudes: They know people and vehicles share the road. We look for each other, wave in acknowledgment, and gesture to suggest “No, no, you wait—-I’m gonna keep walking now.”
It works. They apparently have a different way of going about things in Florida, though. Behold, below, a ranking of the worse cities for pedestrians. It’s part of a report, out yesterday, put together by Transportation for America.
D.C.’s below the jump.
| Ranking | Metropolitan Area | Average Annual Pedestrian Deaths per 100,000 Residents (2007-2008) |
Percent of Workers Walking to Work (2000) |
Pedestrian Danger Index (PDI) |
| 1 | Orlando-Kissimmee, FL | 2.86 | 1.3% | 221.5 |
| 2 | Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL | 3.52 | 1.7% | 205.5 |
| 3 | Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, FL | 3.04 | 1.7% | 181.2 |
| 4 | Jacksonville, FL | 2.61 | 1.7% | 157.4 |
| 5 | Memphis, TN-MS-AR | 1.83 | 1.3% | 137.7 |
| 6 | Raleigh-Cary, NC | 2.02 | 1.6% | 128.6 |
| 7 | Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN | 1.93 | 1.7% | 114.8 |
| 8 | Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX | 1.81 | 1.6% | 112.4 |
| 9 | Birmingham-Hoover, AL | 1.30 | 1.2% | 110.0 |
| 10 | Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, GA | 1.37 | 1.3% | 108.3 |
| 11 | Las Vegas-Paradise, NV | 2.46 | 2.3% | 105.6 |
| 12 | Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord, NC-SC | 1.29 | 1.2% | 103.9 |
| 13 | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX | 1.47 | 1.5% | 99.3 |
| 14 | Detroit-Warren-Livonia, MI | 1.41 | 1.4% | 98.5 |
| 15 | New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner, LA | 2.69 | 2.7% | 98.4 |
| 16 | Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ | 2.02 | 2.1% | 97.0 |
| 17 | Oklahoma City, OK | 1.59 | 1.7% | 95.3 |
| 18 | Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA | 1.94 | 2.2% | 89.5 |
| 19 | Austin-Round Rock, TX | 1.76 | 2.1% | 84.8 |
| 20 | Kansas City, MO-KS | 1.18 | 1.4% | 84.6 |
| 21 | St. Louis, MO-IL | 1.28 | 1.7% | 76.9 |
| 22 | Sacramento–Arden-Arcade–Roseville, CA | 1.64 | 2.2% | 75.9 |
| 23 | Denver-Aurora, CO | 1.59 | 2.1% | 75.6 |
| 24 | Richmond, VA | 1.35 | 1.8% | 74.5 |
| 25 | Tucson, AZ | 1.88 | 2.6% | 72.8 |
| 26 | San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA | 1.30 | 1.8% | 71.9 |
| 27 | Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA | 1.91 | 2.7% | 70.8 |
| 28 | Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro–Franklin, TN | 1.04 | 1.5% | 70.2 |
| 29 | Baltimore-Towson, MD | 1.82 | 2.9% | 61.9 |
| 30 | San Antonio, TX | 1.39 | 2.4% | 58.9 |
| 31 | Indianapolis-Carmel, IN | 1.00 | 1.7% | 58.6 |
| 32 | Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV | 1.75 | 3.0% | 57.2 |
| 33 | San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos, CA | 1.89 | 3.4% | 55.7 |
| 34 | Salt Lake City, UT | 1.04 | 2.1% | 50.2 |
| 35 | Columbus, OH | 1.16 | 2.3% | 49.4 |
| 36 | Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY | 1.33 | 2.7% | 49.3 |
| 37 | Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, WI | 1.39 | 2.9% | 48.6 |
| 38 | Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD | 1.72 | 3.9% | 44.3 |
| 39 | Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC | 1.18 | 2.7% | 44.1 |
| 40 | San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA | 1.60 | 3.9% | 40.9 |
| 41 | Chicago-Naperville-Joliet, IL-IN-WI | 1.23 | 3.1% | 39.3 |
| 42 | Providence-New Bedford-Fall River, RI-MA | 1.25 | 3.3% | 38.4 |
| 43 | Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor, OH | 0.81 | 2.2% | 37.1 |
| 44 | Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton, OR-WA | 1.07 | 2.9% | 36.4 |
| 45 | Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT | 0.88 | 2.5% | 35.3 |
| 46 | Cincinnati-Middletown, OH-KY-IN | 0.77 | 2.3% | 33.5 |
| 47 | Rochester, NY | 1.11 | 3.5% | 31.6 |
| 48 | Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA | 0.98 | 3.1% | 31.1 |
| 49 | Pittsburgh, PA | 1.04 | 3.6% | 29.1 |
| 50 | New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-PA | 1.67 | 6.0% | 28.1 |
| 51 | Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH | 1.07 | 4.6% | 23.2 |
| 52 | Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI | 0.54 | 2.4% | 22.3 |
Image by Transportation for America, Flickr Creative Commons Attribution License.