CBC.ca published an interesting article today on a report done by the Montreal Public Health Department:
Pedestrians are more likely to get hit by a car walking in poor neighbourhoods than affluent ones… The discrepancy can be explained by a relative scarcity of traffic calming measures in low-income areas, researchers at the department concluded.
This is, of course, a perfect example of how class interests shape how cities are built. City councils, which typically represent the interests of the suburban middle-class above the urban working-class, turn the inner-city into a giant highway for getting suburban commuters to their jobs and back; the people who live there are forced to live beside high-speed roads with high vehicle traffic.
