{"id":39748,"date":"2011-10-13T12:07:44","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T17:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=39748"},"modified":"2013-11-09T05:35:53","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T10:35:53","slug":"unsafe-streets-and-vulnerable-pedestrians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/10\/13\/unsafe-streets-and-vulnerable-pedestrians\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrians on Streets Designed for Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year Raquel Nelson was crossing the street with her 4-year-old son who was struck by a driver who fled the scene. Her son died and Nelson — just to be clear, the mom, not the driver of the car —\u00a0was convicted of\u00a0homicide by vehicle and reckless conduct (source<\/a>). Nelson, you see, was jaywalking<\/em>. \u00a0Her apartment complex was directly across the street from the bus stop and a half-mile from the nearest crosswalk. \u00a0None of the jurors on her case had ever taken public transportation.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>(source<\/a>)<\/p>\n

There was a chorus of opposition to her trial and conviction and, likely in part because of the uproar, the judge gave her a probation instead of jail time. He also offered her a new trial; it begins this month.<\/p>\n

In the meantime,\u00a0Nelson’s tragedy drew attention the many neighborhoods that are unsafe for pedestrians. Transportation for America<\/a> is collecting photographs of streets designed and maintained with cars in mind, but unsafe for pedestrians and those using public transportation. Here are a few examples from their flickr stream<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last year Raquel Nelson was crossing the street with her 4-year-old son who was struck by a driver who fled the scene. Her son died and Nelson — just to be clear, the mom, not the driver of the car —\u00a0was convicted of\u00a0homicide by vehicle and reckless conduct (source). Nelson, you see, was jaywalking. \u00a0Her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8080,221,341],"class_list":["post-39748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-housingresidential-segregation","tag-cars","tag-ruralurban"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39748"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58661,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39748\/revisions\/58661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}