Sunday, November 20, 2022
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Sun, Nov 20, 2022, 12:00 PM
Leave right at noon!
1:00 PM
End location: SE 122nd & Powell, NW Corner of Safeway parking lot
#WDoR2022 #SafeStreetsSaveLives Bike Ride from MAX Blue Line to World Day of Remembrance event. Sunday Nov 20. Bike riders leave the station at noon. Gather at MAX Blue line station at E Burnside and 122nd. We'll travel 2.6 miles on this Route: bit.ly/3OgbA7W Families for Safe Streets of Oregon & SW Washington gather to remember victims of traffic violence, demand action from ODOT to make deadliest streets safer. Oregon & SW Washington Families for Safe Streets https://secure.everyaction.com/USXzyls8vkGISreV47vIjw2 Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims this Sunday. Wear yellow to remember those lost and support community members affected by traffic violence. #WDoR2022 #SafeStreetsSaveLives International https://worlddayofremembrance.org/#top Event starts on Sunday, November 20th, 2022 at 1 pm at SE 122nd & Powell Blvd in Portland, Oregon, Families for Safe Streets of Oregon & SW Washington is joining with crash victims, street safety organizations, community members, faith leaders, elected officials, and dignitaries from across the region to REMEMBER, SUPPORT, and ACT. As communities across the country hold vigils, memorial walks, bike rides, protests, and somber displays of candles, shoes, and even body bags intended to represent the lives lost in preventable traffic crashes, we join in the demand for action. Oregon roads are among the most dangerous in the country, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. According to the NHTSA, there were an estimated 250 traffic fatalities in Oregon in the first half of 2022, putting us in the top quartile of deadliest states in U.S.. Adjusted for vehicle miles traveled, however, Oregon has the 10th highest traffic fatality rate in the country – with 1.45 roadway deaths for every 100 million miles traveled. Traffic deaths in Portland are also on the rise. In 2021, 63 people died in traffic crashes in Portland, the highest number of traffic deaths in any year since 1990. These fatalities aren’t concentrated on the interstate highways where ODOT plans to spend most of its money; they’re happening primarily on ODOT’s dangerous arterials and ‘orphan highways’ crisscrossing the state, affecting lives where Oregonians live, work, study, play, and pray every day. Many of Portland’s high crash corridors like Powell Boulevard, where Portland Chef Sarah Pliner was killed last month while commuting to work by bicycle, are state-owned “orphan highways” operated by ODOT. In 2021, 32 people—just over half the city’s total traffic fatalities—died on ODOT-owned roads in Portland. It is long past time to push back on the age-old excuse that “there is not enough money” to fix ODOT’s deadliest streets. This WDoR, we are demanding that the Oregon Department of Transportation along with state and local lawmakers allocate funds and prioritize an ambitious timeline necessary to end the soaring crisis on our most dangerous arterials and orphan highways criss-crossing our state that cost Oregonians their lives and livelihoods daily. This is a public health crisis for which there is a known antidote - #SafeStreetsSaveLives. Participants are asked to wear yellow. ASL interpretation will be available, courtesy of Portland Bureau of Transportation. Where: SE 122nd & Powell, NW Corner of Safeway parking lot 12:30 - setup 1:00 - remembering victims 1:15 - invited speakers 1:30 - 2:15 - guided walk to highlight difference between improved and unimproved ODOT orphan highways Confirmed Speakers: City of Portland Transportation Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty Metro Councilor-elect and Oregon Walks Executive Director Ashton Simpson Charlene Addy McGee REACH Program Manager, Multnomah County Health Department André Lightsey-Walker The Street Trust (guided walk leader) Information about Traffic Violence in Oregon: We know that one consequence of systemic racism in housing, transportation, law enforcement, and healthcare is “avoidable and unacceptable inequities in transportation safety outcomes for the Black population in Multnomah County,” according to its 2021 REACH Transportation Crash and Safety Report, which also highlights that Black residents in Multnomah County were killed in traffic at nearly twice the rate of white residents between 2013-2017. The City of Portland’s Walking While Black Report finds that a lack of traffic safety concerns disproportionately impact low-income communities and people of color, right down to racial bias among motorists, who yield less for Black pedestrians in a crosswalk. Portland’s 2021 Vision Zero Crash Report finds that a majority of the city’s deadly crashes occur in neighborhoods with larger populations of people of color and low-income households. Information about World Day of Remembrance: Each year, the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims honors those who have been killed and injured on roads around the globe – 1.35 million people each year worldwide. 2022 World Day of Remembrance takes on extra urgency as the number of people dying and severely injured in preventable traffic crashes in the U.S. is rising at an alarming rate. In 2021, 42,060 people died in traffic crashes in the U.S.. In 2020, that number had jumped up an alarming 8% from 2019, according to National Safety Council (NSC) estimates. And 2022 is shaping up to be deadly, with an estimated 7% increase in people killed in the beginning of the year over the same period of time in 2021. This would be the highest number of first-quarter fatalities since 2002. Now is the time to act because the U.S. is an outlier. According to a recent report on traffic crashes from the Center for Disease Control, the United States is one of the most dangerous industrialized nations in terms of traffic violence and it is only getting more dangerous. Experts have demonstrated that this is a preventable crisis — Zero is Possible — we can and must do more to prevent deaths and severe injuries on our roadways. We can prioritize safety over speed. We can design roadways, sidewalks, and bikeways and set policies that ensure safe mobility for all. #WDoR2022 #SafeStreetsSaveLives
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