The Most Dangerous U.S. Cities for Pedestrians

[bing101]

http://www.citylab.com/commute/2014/05/the-most-dangerous-us-cities-for-pedestrians/371253/

Woah What do you think of this?

Dangerous for Pedestrians

Ranking	Metro Area	Pedestrian Danger Index
1	Orlando-Kissimmee, Florida	244.28
2	Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, Florida	190.13
3	Jacksonville, Florida	182.71
4	Miami-Fort Lauderdale- Pompano Beach, Florida	145.33
5	Memphis, Tennessee (including parts of Mississippi and Arkansas)	131.26
6	Birmingham-Hoover, AL	125.60
7	Houston-Sugarland-Baytown, Texas	119.64
8	Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, Georgia	119.35
9	Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, Arizona	118.64
10	Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord, North Carolina-South Carolina	111.74

Safe for Pedestrians

Ranking	Metro Area	Pedestrian Danger Index
1	Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, Massachusetts	18.65
2	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	25.10
3	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, Washington	26.81
4	New York City-Northern New Jersey-Long Island	26.81
5	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, California	31.44
6	Minneapolis-St.Paul-Bloomington, Minnesota	32.15
7	Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton, Oregon-Washington	32.19
8	Chicago-Napierville-Joliet, Illinois (including parts of Indiana and Wisconsin)	32.94
9	Rochester, New York	33.97
10	Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor, Ohio	34.37

[Scott5114]

tl;dr: Don't go to Florida. If you must go to Florida, do not exit your vehicle at any time. If you do, you will die, probably by being eaten by a crocodile or a retiree.

[hotdogPi]

It seems like the further south, the more dangerous. There are exceptions, but it's the general rule.

[Brandon]

Mild nitpick, and it's on the part of the article writers (not bing101), but Napierville is in Quebec.  Naperville is in Illinois.

It seems like the further south, the more dangerous. There are exceptions, but it's the general rule.

Many of those area have very wide streets.  Tradephoric has covered a few of them in the longest pedestrian crossings thread.

[formulanone]

My opinion of Florida is that there's a very limited "pedestrian culture". People rarely cross streets on foot in suburbs, high population densities in all of those regions, bicycles are rare, and a plethora of folks with differing driving habits/skills...none of it helps. And that doesn't include the folks past their prime, on medications, unfamiliar tourists, those drunk, or the distracted.

Throw in a lot of wide roads and an attitude which doesn't look out for legally crossing pedestrians and those who meander across roads anywhere or anytime, and you have a volatile situation.

[ET21]

Mild nitpick, and it's on the part of the article writers (not bing101), but Napierville is in Quebec.  Naperville is in Illinois.

It seems like the further south, the more dangerous. There are exceptions, but it's the general rule.

Many of those area have very wide streets.  Tradephoric has covered a few of them in the longest pedestrian crossings thread.

Hahaha I thought the same thing 

[roadman65]

What I can say about Florida is that if it has become dangerous for pedestrians to walk ( I say if only because I have not seen the actual statistics myself) that it may have to do with people being careless about how they cross a street here.

Everyday, I see people crossing anyplace and anywhere.  The one that gets me is when someone walks literally ten feet away from a crosswalk when if they are that close to it they might as well be in it.  If it were like 50 feet away, then I can see you crossing at that point, but to make the point of what I see it goes beyond illegal jay walking. 

I see people not being safe at all, like walking across the street during a left turn signal or protected left arrow is on when they are in the path of the turning vehicles.  Some may think that the walk white logo is not operating, but common sense should tell you that it would not be displayed during a left turn green arrow if its going across your cross walk.  Then when they step off that curb in front of a right turning vehicle is another tempt of fate as many motorists are looking left when turning right and are not going to be focused on the sidewalk to the side of the turn is a big stunner for me.  Many people think that drivers look both ways when turning right, but they do not.

Then the most careless one is when a bus passenger walks right behind the bus he just left which is blocking his view of the road is very common in Orlando.  Not to mention the fact that one day that bus driver will have to back his bus up for some reason, and if you are behind that particular bus than you know the driver will not at all see you.

I think all of these factors might support that fact if people here in Florida are getting hit more than other places.

[thenetwork]

I'm surprised they don't list Denver as a dangerous city for pedestrians.  It seems like every day on the local Denver news, there is at least one story where some pedestrian or bike rider gets hit while crossing one of the main streets.  And many times it's a hit-and-run driver at the wheel.

[Zeffy]

How much do you think the list would change if you were to factor in things such as street crime rates (I.E. chance of a bullet whizzing by you while walking in said city) in addition to vehicular accidents? When I think of the term "pedestrian", I think of any person walking in a given area. Some of those areas are not the nicest places, so calling a city "dangerous for pedestrians" just because people can't drive or people don't know what common sense is seems a bit misleading IMO. But that's my two cents, and regarding the article, this almost makes me glad I don't live in Orlando anymore (actually, it does and doesn't, mainly because I liked the area I lived in Orlando back when it wasn't such a major city, and looking at it now makes me happy, except pissed that I wasn't there to experience it grow...).