From The Globe and Mail — Crossed Signals

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Crossed signals: Reducing the risk of pedestrian death in Vancouver

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VANCOUVER— Saturday's Globe and Mail

“We have been designing roads that are killing about 1.3 million people a year. And we’re getting away with it by blaming the road user,”

A 74-year-old woman was hit at Robson and Howe downtown in broad daylight by an SUV on March 6 and died later that afternoon.

A 75-year-old woman was hit and killed at the intersection of 41st Avenue and Ross Street in southeast Vancouver 11 days later. A 29-year-old woman was critically injured in yet another car-and-pedestrian crash March 31 at the intersection of Broadway and Rupert Street.

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