Speaking of traffic fatalities, Helsinki is doing things differently. Amanda Shendruk for Not-Ship has the charts:
This past summer, Helsinki made an astonishing announcement: as of August, the Finnish capital went an entire year without any traffic deaths. Not a single pedestrian, cyclist or driver died on the city’s roads. Not. One.
And this wasn’t an outlier year. Helsinki’s traffic deaths have been steadily declining for decades.
Lower speed limits and income-based speeding fines helped the city get to this point. Maybe others should give this a try.
Sidenote: Not-Ship is a new data-focused newsletter from Shendruk that is worth a sub.
