Chicago saw over 17,000 pedestrian-car crashes between 2005 and 2009, 16 percent of which resulted in serious injury or death for the person on foot. And while Chicago has recently seen a drop in crash rates, city planners still feel they have their work cut out for them.
“We face substantial challenges… Chicago has double the national average for hit and run pedestrian fatalities (40 percent),” Gabe Klein, commissioner of the Department of Transportation wrote in the report. “Our goal to reduce pedestrian fatalities to zero over the next ten years may seem a stretch, but as the City of Big Shoulders, we can settle for nothing less than other world-class cities.”
Read the entire Chicago Pedestrian Plan here (PDF).
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