![]() But forget SUVs, If you want to save lives you have to ban vehicles in general from urban areas, especially central urban areas with large numbers of pedestrians and cyclists. Particularly, you aren't going to have Vision Zero when you continue to allow these vehicles to come in massive numbers into school zones.Įven more so you aren't going to achieve vision zero if you allow these vehicles into central urban areas of Arlington with high numbers of pedestrian. If you are going to choose to make SUVs legal, a vehicle that is 4x more deadly than even a car to children aged 5-9, then you are not going to have Vision Zero. So what I really hear in this statement is that we aren't going to ban any forms of transportation no matter how deadly those forms of transportation are to users of other forms of transportation. This statement is fundamentally disturbing because safe streets aren't about equality, they are about equity. We also encourage you to share these posts and send them to Arlington Virginia's so called leadership.ĪrlingtonVA Statement 1: Vision Zero in Arlington will strive to ensure safe transportation no matter how you get around. We encourage Arlington's leadership to consider these flaws and to rewrite and rethink Vision Zero. We will go through each of six statements residents were asked to comment on and explain why each is illogical and will just result in more death and serious injuries. This is a six part series dedicated to showing just how weak and meaningless Arlington's current Vision Zero goals are. And for goodness sake we should be allowing people to use the transit to get there. This occurred even when shots were located near a transit station.īut why are we setting up a system that favors people driving to rural areas anyways? If people in rural areas don't want shots then we should be moving the shots to urban areas.Īnd shots in urban areas should be by transit and they should if at all possible be by the best transit possible. Worse than this is the outright discriminatory practices that have occurred in places like California where people have been denied COVID shots for not arriving in a car. I will also mention I think the second one is more common. So they might think nothing of it until they do it once.and then they may hesitate to do it again. Secondly, many people forget about the dangers of a road trip until they actually embark on one. Firstly, what people are willing to do for the larger protection of the first shot, they might not be willing to do for the second. I know of many people who drove very far distances to get their first shot-some for hours. Do we really think that if all they had to do was walk or bike ten minutes in a car-free space people would even hesitate to show up? Even if people aren't saying it, you have to wonder how many people quietly or even subconsciously are missing their second shots due to not wanting to face this war zone. Not to mention vehicles that are more aggressive looking. Our roads have become an arms race of larger and larger vehicles. Think about it-we have made our roads into war zones. Even for people who do drive, I bet for many driving was a factor. But there were definitely moments when I wondered if I would end up getting my second shot-at least anytime remotely close to my first shot.īut that is the story of me, someone who doesn't drive (and who avoids Uber like the plague it is). ![]() I ended up getting my second shot-but I ended up getting it a week late while I waited for a better location. I didn't feel comfortable taking transit there, I didn't feel comfortable walking there and I didn't feel comfortable biking there. But then when it came to my second shot, completely out of the blue, the location was moved to a different center. I was able to get my first shot right near bus transit. People say, they don't understand how or why someone would not show up for their second shot. I've noticed some articles recently on missed second shots.
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