City of Ottawa staff are defending the graphic nature of a new online advertisement aimed at discouraging jaywalking on city streets, saying it is part of a campaign focusing on behaviours will "depict the serious nature of road safety and lead to greater awareness to all road users of their responsibilities."

“We continually flame road violence as an outcome of personal choices yet we all know very well it’s the result of our cities choices,” Tom Flood said on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.

“This is an unacceptable ad; victim blaming road violence is not the city I believe in,” architect Toon Dreessen said.

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Statistics provided by Gonthier shows 25 per cent of all fatal and major injury collisions on Ottawa’s roads involve pedestrians. The memo provided data on collisions between 2017 and 2021 on Ottawa roads:

  • 29 per cent of fatal and major injury collisions involving a pedestrian occurred when a pedestrian was crossing a road midblock (away from an intersection)
  • 23 per cent of fatal and major injury collisions involving a pedestrian occurred when a pedestrian with the right-of-way was struck at an intersection by a left turning driver
  • 11 per cent of fatal and major injury collisions involving a pedestrian occurred when a pedestrian who did not have the right-of-way was struck by a vehicle travelling straight through an intersection
  • masterspaceEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Obviously. Do you think buses and bicycles don’t need roads? When did I claim to demolish each and every street?

    The comment I responded to that started this whole chain of discussion literally said that you do not need to design cities to accommodate cars.

    Then there’s countless disabilities preventing you from driving altogether. Legally blind people, people with mental disabilities ranging from epilepsy to trisomy 21 or those with disabilities affecting their upper body’s mobility all cannot even get driver’s licenses. But sure, this is not ableist in the slightest.

    It is not ablest to accommodate a disability, and even the legally blind still use taxis and ubers and rely heavily on cars for last mile transportation infrastructure.

    Yes storage. Most equipment is stored in the sport facility. Soccer teams store the footballs, hockey teams store the rackets etc.

    Lmao, tell me you’ve never played sports without saying you’ve never played sports.

    In addition, don’t all sports teams usually stay at one facility for everything but competitions?

    Nope. House leagues tend to play at a single location, competitive teams, i.e. select, rep, whatever, play between different locations.

    If there is a competition guess what’s possible: Have a bus pick up the players and their equipment at their home stadium and drive towards where the competition is together.

    And we need car infrastructure to support the buses and, how are players getting their equipment from their house to their home stadium in the first place?

    Should we be using cars far less than we do? Yeah, obviously, but the anti-car crowd makes us all look stupid when they make dumbass ablest claims like we don’t need to design cities to accommodate cars.