Towards A More Pedestrian-Friendly Mexico City
The car-free lifestyle is still far from trendy in this city of 20 million people where most people still yearn for a car but can’t afford one. Yet traffic and poor air quality are increasingly determinants in the nascent but growing culture of walking and biking, despite the inherent danger in doing either.
Those brave souls who opt to take Mexico City by foot face some of the most perilous streets in the world. An average of 9.4 out of every 100,000 inhabitants die in car accidents per year here, according to the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy. In 2006, 861 pedestrians died in car accidents.
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August 31 2007 03:08 pm | Environment
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