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- Henri Lefebvre, The Right to the City — In brief, the right to the city is the right to the production of a city. The labor of a worker is the source of most of the value of a commodity that is expropriated by the owner. The worker, therefore, has a right to benefit from that value denied to them. In the same way, the urban citizen produces and reproduces the city through their own daily actions. However, the the city is expropriated from the urbanite by the rich and the state. The right to the city is therefore the right to appropriate the city by and for those who make and remake it.
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Despite this, the article suggests that nearly all of the increase in deadly accidents has come from urban roads.
If the roads are just as poorly designed as before, the increase has to originate elsewhere.
Which doesn't mean that road design shouldn't improve. :)
Specifically it looks like the biggest increases are on urban principal arterial and and urban minor arterial. I suspect larger vehicle sizes impact the trend on a broad scale, but consideration should be kept for increasing demand for urban arterial roads, and widening existing ones as metro areas continue to sprawl at more local scales.
I'd be very interested to see the data on pedestrian deaths by road type contrasted to road infrastructure growth by type. The fact that Rural Principal arterial deaths practically disappeared around the same time that urban arterial deaths started significantly increasing could speak to a change in road classification or area designation between rural and suburban.
Specifically Rural Arterial deaths decreased by 229 from 2014 to 2015. In the same year urban principal arterial increased by 231 Urban Minor Arterial increased by 136, and rural minor collector increased by 155. While it doesn't account for the entirety of the increase, I think there's enough there to look at how urban arterial roads are designed.
Edit: Added specificity.