Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is targeting safety during a “season of building” brought on by the 2021 infrastructure law.
A: We have to face it in order to fix it. We’re not out to blame any community for a safety problem that’s emerged, especially knowing the underinvestment that has happened nationally in our roads and streets and infrastructure. What we know is that when we target these investments and interventions where they’re going to make the biggest difference, we’re saving a lot of lives.
A: Strategies are going to need to be different in different places. We’re working everywhere, from urban areas like Detroit and Charlotte, to rural Iowa, where their problem is lane departures. We really need to meet communities where they are. Rural areas tend to have longer open roads and higher speeds. You can adjust for that in ways that can save lives.
A lot of people snicker at the idea that you could have a nationwide rate of zero when it comes to traffic fatalities, even though we often have zero when it comes to passenger airline fatalities. But I think the best way to get closer to zero as a country is to demonstrate that it can happen somewhere in particular, as it has in Hoboken and Jersey City, and Edina, Minnesota, places that made it to zero deaths.
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