
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


Despite a rise in traffic deaths and pedestrian fatalities nationally, Jersey City hasn't had a traffic death so far this year. Hoboken hasn't had one in four years. Angie Schmitt, writer, planning consultant, and author of Right of Way: Race, Class and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America (Island Press, 2020), explains what these cities are doing right and why the rest of the country lags so far behind. Plus, Jimmy Lee, board president at Safe Streets, tells us what he hopes Jersey City will continue to achieve.
By WNYC4.6
15141,514 ratings
Despite a rise in traffic deaths and pedestrian fatalities nationally, Jersey City hasn't had a traffic death so far this year. Hoboken hasn't had one in four years. Angie Schmitt, writer, planning consultant, and author of Right of Way: Race, Class and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America (Island Press, 2020), explains what these cities are doing right and why the rest of the country lags so far behind. Plus, Jimmy Lee, board president at Safe Streets, tells us what he hopes Jersey City will continue to achieve.

38,605 Listeners

6,798 Listeners

3,956 Listeners

9,251 Listeners

8,463 Listeners

4,098 Listeners

480 Listeners

12,714 Listeners

14,452 Listeners

6,469 Listeners

1,544 Listeners

3,505 Listeners

113,168 Listeners

2,801 Listeners

1,405 Listeners

2,382 Listeners

1,196 Listeners

5,572 Listeners

5,767 Listeners

421 Listeners

7,265 Listeners

673 Listeners

16,409 Listeners

2,823 Listeners

645 Listeners

262 Listeners

1,969 Listeners

1,617 Listeners

83 Listeners

663 Listeners

631 Listeners

259 Listeners

20 Listeners